Irwin Burton Holzman was born in Portland, Oregon on January 4, 1930 to Lena and Jerome Holzman. His paternal great grandparents arrived in Oregon in 1859 and settled in Baker first, and later in Albany. His mother’s side, too had been in the west a long time. His mother was born in Washington state. Jerome …
Read MoreSolomon David Menashe was born on November 17, 1925 to David and Joanna Capeloto Menashe. Sol’s father had immigrated from the Isle Rhodes in 1914 and his mother was from Mecina, Turkey. They married in 1924 and opened a soda fountain on the corner of Broadway and Taylor. The family joined the Sephardic synagogue, Ahavath …
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 MoreEmma Bader Glickman was born March 23, 1905 in Portland, Oregon. Emma’s father lived in Dublin, Ireland and Winnipeg, Canada before moving to Portland. Her mother came from Germany and lived in a number of places in the US before settling in Seattle. She eventually moved to Portland, where met and married Emma’s father in …
Read MoreRobert Glasgow was born on November 13, 1944 in Portland, Oregon. His parents are Joseph Glasgow and Lena (Lee) Friedman Glasgow Schiff, and his siblings are Sara Glasgow Cogan, Boruk Glasgow, and William Glasgow. Joseph was born in Lithuania, and Lena was born in Brooklyn, New York; they came to Portland to work in the …
Read MoreHarry Gevurtz was born in Portland on January 8, 1897 to Isaac and Cecelia Gerson Gevurtz. His parents met in Oregon and were married by Rabbi Jacob Bloch at Temple Beth Israel in 1986. He had two brothers: Louis and Milton. He also had twin sisters: Lillian (Brandt) and Fanny (Crohn). He went to Ladd Elementary School, Lincoln High …
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 MoreSadie Cohen Geller was born in Stolin, Russia (now Belarus) in the year 1900. She recalls very little about the Old Country – only that her grandfather was a grain dealer – because her family relocated to New York in 1908. Her father had arrived a few years prior, and Sadie subsequently came to join him …
Read MoreHilde Geisen was born to Robert and Frieda Geisenheimer on May 28, 1924 in Cologne, Germany. She lost most of her family when they were scattered and murdered in various concentration camps. Hilde herself was imprisoned as a teenager in Terezin, in Czechoslovakia. She made lifelong friends with an “adoptive mother” there, and traveled with her …
Read MoreBeverly Galen was born on February 17, 1927 in New York City to Beatrice and George Weiner. The family lived in Brooklyn when she was a child and then followed her paternal grandfather, Louis Weiner, first to Los Angeles and then to Portland, Oregon. Louis worked at Modish Coat and Suit and got a job for …
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