Eddy Shuldman was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1954. Her parents Phillip and Anne were both survivors of the Holocaust and met in Dayton, where both of them had moved after the war. The family moved to Portland in 1956 and settled first in Laurelhurst. They moved to southwest Portland to be close to the …
Read MoreEstelle Director Sholkoff was born in 1911 in a South Portland. Her parents, Anne Shapiro Director from Lodz, Poland and Nathan Director from Charterisk, Russia had immigrated in 1909, joining Nathan’s older brother Sam, who had arrived in 1905. Anne and Nathan played an important role in building the early Jewish Communal life in Portland. Their …
Read MoreLaslow Lester Schonstal was born in Budapest, Hungary. His childhood was a happy one, and his family lived a comfortable life. It wasn’t until 1944, when the Germans invaded Hungary to be closer to the Russian front that life became increasingly more difficult. He and his family were moved to an apartment building marked with …
Read MoreEdith Schonstal was born in 1937 in Budapest, Hungary. Her family endured great difficulty during the Second World War, but counted themselves fortunate until 1944 when they were moved and interred in the Budapest Ghetto. While this was a great upheaval, and life became gradually more difficult, they were all able to survive the war. …
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 MoreDr. Edward Schneider was born on January 15, 1937 in Tacoma, Washington, where his father Leo Schneider was doing a medical residency. The family returned to Portland soon after he was born. Ed, his mother Rachel, and his sister Sandra moved in with his maternal grandfather Rabbi Joseph Fain when Ed was five years old and …
Read MoreMartin J. Schneiderman was born in Portland, Oregon, in April 1942, the only child of Leonard Schneiderman and Betty Posner Schneiderman. He lived in the immigrant neighborhood of South Portland and attended Shattuck School. During Martin’s final year of elementary school, Urban Renewal in South Portland compelled the family to relocate to the Hillsdale neighborhood. After …
Read MoreNorman Savinar was born in Portland, Oregon on June 16, 1916 to Jacob and Bessie (Abrams) Savinar, two years after their families had immigrated from Russia. His parents met in Portland. His father’s family was Orthodox and they established themselves in South Portland. His grandfather never learned English but he was as student of Torah, a …
Read MoreDavid Sarasohn was born on August 17th, 1950, in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father worked as an internal revenue agent, and his mother was a schoolteacher. David has one sister who is 11 years his senior. David’s father had a rheumatic fever as a child that resulted in rheumatic heart disease, which kept him very …
Read MoreMargaret Muller Salomon was born in Dusseldorf, Germany on May 5, 1910. Her parents were Simon and Flora Muller, and were both born in 1878. Margaret had two brothers: Hans and Walter. Simon owned a men’s store with 30 to 50 employees. During World War I, Flora ran the store while Simon was serving in …
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