Trudi Schnitzer Stone was born in Portland, Oregon on January 2, 1944 to Manuel and Ruth (Rosumny) Schnitzer. Her maternal grandparents, William and Annie Rosumny, owned the Star Bakery, where Trudi’s mother and her siblings grew up working. Trudi’s uncles Marvin Rosumny and Ben Medofsky continued to run the bakery as Trudi grew up. Trudi’s family …
Read MoreSharyn Salmenson Schneiderman was born on April 24th, 1943 and raised in Portland. She grew up, along with her parents and sister, in Northeast Portland, outside of the city’s Jewish neighborhood. Both sides of Sharyn’s family originated in Russia. Her mother worked as a bookkeeper and her father was an insurance salesman. Sharyn grew up in …
Read MoreEve Rosenfeld was born on May, 3 1929, the youngest of five children to Esther Nudelman Overback and Oscar Overback. She had four siblings: Murry Overbeck, Sylvia Overback Miller, Howard Overback and Lawrence Overback. The family lived in the Irvington district of Portland where Eve attended Grant High School. After graduating with a BA in Sociology …
Read MoreMartha Olshen was one of seven children born to Hyman (Herman) and Mishka Horenstein. Her parents had immigrated from Russia in 1905. They were well-known in Portland for the numbers of other Russian families they managed to bring to America. Hyman Horenstein worked as a barber and founded the Oregon Barber College at SW Second and …
Read MoreJeanne Mittleman Newmark was born in Portland, Oregon on April 10, 1930 to Helen and Harry Mittleman, the youngest of four girls. Her sisters were Marian, Charlotte, and Babette. Helen and Harry Mittleman were both born in Nebraska in 1900 and, after marrying, moved to Castle Rock, Washington, where Harry owned a grocery store. When …
Read MoreLeah Tkatch Nepom was born in Fredonia, Kansas, on February 29, 1928 (a leap year birthday). Her parents, Chaya and Yelic (Joe), were immigrants from Russia. They landed first in Illinois, but upon hearing of cheap land for sale, relocated to Fredonia, Kansas, where Leah and both of her sisters, Bessy and Edna, were born. She …
Read MoreJohn H. Miller was born on February 18, 1907 in Neunkirchen, Germany the eldest of three children of Simon and Flora (Kahn) Mueller. His brother Walter (born in 1908) and Greta (Salomon born in 1910) followed. Their parents Simon and Flora ran a men’s clothing store in Düsseldorf. John was educated as far as high school. …
Read MoreGayle Breslow Marger was born on April 4, 1944 in Portland, Oregon to Max and Gertie Levin Breslow. Max was a professional jazz musician, who came to Portland from Lincoln, Nebraska. He died when Gayle was quite young. Because both of her aunts married Sephardic men, Gayle grew up with both Ashkenazic and Sephardic traditions. Her …
Read MoreFlora Schwartz Marcus was born in Russia in 1905 and came to the United States with her mother, her sister Sadie, and brother Nate when she was eight years old to join her father and brother, Sam, who had come earlier. The family lived in South Portland and attended Shaarie Torah Synagogue. Flora learned English at …
Read MoreIrv Leopold was born on April 3, 1926 in Portland, Oregon to Sam and Pearl Nudelman Leopold, who arrived in the United States as children from Russia and Germany. His mother was a part of the large Nudelman family that came to the US to start an agrarian community in North Dakota. Many of those …
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