Jerry Sadis was born and raised in the Sephardic Jewish community of Seattle, Washington. His parents were Sarah Castriano and Jack Sadis. As a young man Jerry worked at his father’s co-owned West Hills Fish Market in Seattle. He attended University of Washington and after graduation in 1965, he married Bunny Mitchell. The couple moved to …
Read MoreRose Rustin was born December 22, 1932 on a dairy farm in Silverton, Oregon, the tenth of eleven children of Walter and Elise von Flue. Walter was Catholic and Elise was a member of the German Apostolic Christian Church. Rose contracted polio at 18 months forcing her mother to leave the house with her new baby. …
Read MoreTed Rubenstein was born in 1932, the second child of Harry and Anne Kaplon Rubenstein. His father had moved the family to Medford, Oregon during the Depression and owned a general store there, which Ted grew up working in during the summers and vacations. Ted’s older sister, Helen (Stern) and his cousin Norman Kaplon and he …
Read MoreFlora Steinberg Rubenstein was born in 1909 in Lublin, Poland. Her father came to Portland, Oregon in 1913 and her mother and three siblings and she followed in 1921. She attended Failing School and took sporadic classes offered at night school at Lincoln High School and then attended Behnke-Walker Business College. She married Meyer Rubenstein in …
Read MoreLouis Rotenberg was born in Portland in 1914. He grew up in South Portland and later in the Park Blocks, attending Shattuck, Failing, Cleveland and Lincoln Schools. Lou’s father Hyman owned a bakery where Lou and his two brothers worked as boys, although their mother counseled them to stay away from the bakery business as a …
Read MoreMarianne Rossen was born on February 18, 1921 in Berlin, Germany. Her father owned and operated a bank, allowing her family to live a very comfortable life in the city. Marianne attended public school until 1937 when all Jewish students were expelled. She was 16. Soon thereafter, he fathers bank was seized by the Nazis, …
Read MoreMargie Rosenthal was born Margie Kieffer in 1947 in Waterloo, Iowa. Her father was in the clothing business and ran several stores in Iowa and Minneapolis before moving the family to Southern California, where Margie and her brother Max (Mac) spent their childhoods. Margie became interested in Jewish music at Reform Camp Saratoga (later named …
Read MoreEve Rosenfeld was born on May, 3 1929, the youngest of five children to Esther Nudelman Overback and Oscar Overback. She had four siblings: Murry Overbeck, Sylvia Overback Miller, Howard Overback and Lawrence Overback. The family lived in the Irvington district of Portland where Eve attended Grant High School. After graduating with a BA in Sociology …
Read MoreBetty Lillian Rosenfeld (nee Coren), an only child, was born in Cleveland, Ohio on May 19, 1925 to Morris and Eva Weinstein. Her maternal and paternal grandparents had both emigrated from Russia, and Betty’s parents were first generation Americans. The family was moderately observant, and they belonged to Rabbi Abba Hillel’s temple in Cleveland. Betty attended …
Read MoreAlan Rosenfeld was born in 1923, the youngest son of Ruth Goldsmith Rosenfeld and Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld. He had two siblings: Helen Rosenfeld Lackman and Dr. Edward Rosenfeld. He attended Ainsworth Grade School and Lincoln High School in Portland. He began his undergraduate career at Stanford University before the Second World War. From 1944 to 1945, …
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