Elaine 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 MoreCarol Kane Cheslter was born on September 16, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, the second child of Mary and William Kane. Carol’s large extended family (her mother was one of ten children) lived in Cleveland and she grew up in Cleveland Heights with many cousins. Carol met her husband Sy while still in high school and married …
Read MoreJudge Anthony Casciato was born in South Portland on November 1, 1917. He was one of eight sons of an immigrant, Italian family. His father arrived in Portland in 1906. He had left economic hardships in Italy to work with a cousin in construction. The whole family lived in South Portland (he was one of …
Read MoreMilt Carl was born in Portland in 1925, the third of four surviving children of Russian immigrants. The children were: Sid, Bess, Milt and Eva (Walleston). They lived in South Portland at Third and College until the early 1930s, when they moved to Park and Jackson. His father owned a men’s clothing store. Milt worked as …
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 …
Read MoreBernard Brown was born in Viseul-de-Sus, Romania to a religious family. He had an older brother and three younger sisters. During the Second World War he was sent to several concentration and work camps and was the only member of his family to survive. He married his wife Libby after they both survived the camps. They …
Read MoreFrances Schnitzer Bricker was born in Portland on August 6, 1909. Her family had immigrated from Russia around 1904. Her father Moishe Schnitzer worked as a junk man in Portland. It was the only job he could find that didn’t interfere with the Sabbath, to save enough money to send for Frances’s mother and her older …
Read MoreHannah Mihlstin Bodner was born in New York on December 31, 1891 to immigrant parents who had come to America separately from Hungary and Austria and had met in New York. Shortly after Hannah was born, they moved to Tacoma, WA, where her father worked as a roofer and builder. He was offered a job with …
Read MoreReuben Blumenthal (born Runyas) was born January 1, 1891 in Romanika, Russia, and came to New York when he was two. His father worked as a watchmaker but died in New York in 1898. Reuben, his mother and sister, moved to Portland when Reuben was 12, because his aunt, uncle, and cousins, the Nudelmans, lived …
Read MoreMollie Blumenthal was born and raised in Portland to immigrant parents: her father from Latvia and mother from Romania. Both parents had children from previous marriages and Mollie lived with a large blended family, eight children in a two bedroom house in South Portland. She attended Failing School and took classes after school in sewing and …
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