Sylvan Durkheimer was born March 14, 1893 in Burns, Oregon. Both of his grandfathers immigrated to the United States in their early teens to escape the military draft in Germany. His paternal grandfather, Kaufman Durkheimer, came to the US from Bavaria in 1839 and to Portland in 1865 by boat around South America. His maternal grandfather, …
Read MoreNadine Dunker was born in Seattle, Washington on May 22, 1938, the third child of Barney and Frances (Schnitzer) Bricker. Her siblings are Sue Dorn and Monte Bricker. She is the granddaughter of Morris and Bertha Schnitzer and part of a very large, extended Schnitzer family in Portland. The family had connections in many of …
Read MoreFelice Lauterstein Driesen was born in Portland, Oregon on February 17, 1919 to a family that had been in Portland for several generations already. Her grandfather, Rabbi Henry Nathan Heller was born in Pressburg, Austria-Hungary from a family with a long rabbinical history. A trained musician, he attended the Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen under …
Read MoreMarguerite Swett Dilsheimer was born on March 20, 1904. Marguerite’s family were Jewish pioneers in Oregon. Her mother, Julia Segal Swett had five sisters: Molly Segal, Bess Segal Bogen (Idaho), Esther Segal Goldman (Kansas City), Ann Segal, Evelyn Segal Savinar. Marguerite’s father, Isaac Swett was eight years old when their family arrived in Oregon. Isaac and …
Read MoreBoris Dayyan (born Mossesohn) was born on November 4, 1907 on Johnson Street in Portland, Oregon. Boris was from a prominent local Jewish family. His grandfather, Nehemiah Mosseyavich Dayyan, immigrated to the United States from Odessa, Ukraine in 1882, and was a rabbi at Neveh Zedek. His father, David Mossesohn, was very active in the …
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 MoreSeymour “Sy” Chestler was born in Cleveland, Ohio on September 12, 1930. His grandparents were from Lithuania, and his father was born in New York and his mother in Cleveland. He grew up in a Jewish neighborhood with the elementary school almost entirely Jewish. He graduated high school in 1949 and went to Western Reserve University, …
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 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 …
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