Garry Kahn was born in San Francisco, California on April 20, 1936, to Wilfred and Mildred (nee Cooper) Kahn as the oldest of three. His sister Judith is a year younger and his brother Rick is nineteen years his younger. Wilfred and Mildred met c. 1934 when Mildred went on a trip to San Francisco …
Read MoreErna was born in Poland in 1912, but moved to Vienna with her family when she was a year old. She was the eldest of three daughters. Her parents were Orthodox Jews, and her father owned a kosher restaurant. Erna graduated from medical school in Vienna, and married Alfred, a literature student, in 1935. When …
Read MoreMilt Hasson was born in 1920 at St. Vincent Hospital in Northwest Portland. He grew up in South Portland where he attended Shattuck School and Lincoln High School, which he says had a large Jewish student body with some Italian students. He graduated in 1937. He was pre-med at University of Portland, a Catholic School with …
Read MoreRosalie Horenstein Goodman, a native Portlander, was born to Mike and Sadie Horenstein on February 5, 1929. She had a sister, Lorraine Lippoff, who was four years older. Her parents were born in Russia and emigrated to America in 1912, first to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania then to Portland, Oregon to join other family members. Rosalie grew …
Read MorePauline Goldstein was born in 1939 in Hillsboro, Oregon. After she graduated from college, she moved to San Francisco. She met her future husband, Gersham Goldstein, in 1963 in Salem, Oregon. She was in California for two years before she married Gersham, after which the couple moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. She converted to Judaism while in …
Read MoreBelle Bloom Gevurtz was born to Max Blum (Bloom) and Mary Nachamovitch in Taunton, Massachusetts on July 7, 1895. The family moved shortly thereafter to Waterbury, Connecticut before moving to San Francisco in 1906 where her father ran a shoe store. They survived the great earthquake but they lost their house and her father’s store. They …
Read MoreGeorge Fendel was born on August 29, 1942 in Portland, Oregon to Joseph and Gladys (Lieberman) Fendel. The family lived in Grant Park. George and his older sister Betty Lynn (Menashe) and younger brother Michael Richard attended Fernwood Grade School and Grant High School. Their father co-owned Standard TV and Appliance in SE Portland and their …
Read MoreElaine Rosenberg Cogan was born September 24, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York to Belle and Lou Rosenberg. Lou and his father had a fur business. The family moved to Portland, Oregon in 1948 where her dad worked at Ungar’s Fur Company. The family originally moved to outer southeast Portland and then eventually closer in to northeast …
Read MoreArnold Maurice Cogan was born on December 3, 1932 in Bath, Maine; he was the fourth of six children. His parents moved the family moved to Portland, Oregon in 1948, where he attended Grant High School. Arnold went on to study engineering at Oregon State University, where he met and married his wife Elaine (nee Rosenberg) …
Read MoreJoan (Joanie) Campf was born in Northeast Portland in November 1942 to George and Sylvia Davis Campf; her brother is Melvin Campf. Her grandparents on her father’s side were Sam and Molly Sherman Campf. Sam was the head tailor in the Men’s Department of the downtown Meier & Frank Department Store. Before that time, he …
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