Mary (Miriam) Friedman Rosenberg was born January 4, 1900 in the Bronx, New York. At the urging of her mother’s brother, Abraham Lichtgarn, Mary’s family, consisting of mother Anna and father Morris, older sister Bertha, and two younger brothers Jack and Isidor, all moved to Portland, Oregon in 1905. Initially settling in SE Portland on 26th …
Read MoreLaurie David Rogoway was born on February 22, 1944 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, where she was raised and educated. She moved to Portland, Oregon upon marrying her husband Burt Rogoway in 1964 and raised her family in Southwest Portland. Laurie and Burt originally lived in Southeast Portland, nearer to relatives. They adopted their first daughter, Susanne …
Read MoreArthur Robert (Ro-behr) was born September 6, 1920 in La Broque, France, a small village near Alsace, to Marguerite and Arthur Robert. He had two sisters: Alice (Alis) and Genevieve (Genviev). When Arthur was still in high school, his father founded the Volontaires de la Mort, or the Volunteers of Death, a French Resistance organization …
Read MoreEva Simons Rickles was born on November 13, 1927 in Berlin, Germany to Dolf and Marie Elizabeth Simons. Her mother was an economist for the German government after the First World War and her father was a dermatologist in private practice. The family escaped from Berlin as the Nazis were becoming more and more powerful. They …
Read MoreHelga Bernstein Relation was born in Berlin, Germany, on February 24, 1924. She attended a public primary school and then a private Catholic school for lyceum (high school). Helga’s father owned and operated a fabric wholesale business in Berlin. He worked primarily with silks, satins and velvets. Her mother was a respected seamstress in their community. Although …
Read MoreAugusta “Gussie” Reinhardt was born on December 31, 1907 in Salem, Oregon to Oscar and Anna Kirshner of Odessa, Russia; her siblings were Ora Kirshner Goodman, Hyman Kirshner, and Isadore Kirshner. She graduated from Lincoln High School in Portland in 1925, majored in physical education at the University of Washington, and received her master’s degree in …
Read MoreGordon Pearlman was born in Des Moines, Iowa on December 20, 1942. His father’s family had come from Poland to reunite with family when his father was three years old. Gordon grew up in the Conservative community in Des Moines, very active in the USY (United Synagogue Youth) movement. He studied theater at the University of …
Read MoreElla Ostroff was born in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary on June 4, 1932 to Henry and Helen Weiss. She had three older sisters (Magda, Lily, and Olga) and one brother. Ella lost both her parents and her brother in the Holocaust; her father was deported early on to a labor camp where he died, and her mother and …
Read MoreMartha Olshen was one of seven children born to Hyman (Herman) and Mishka Horenstein. Her parents had immigrated from Russia in 1905. They were well-known in Portland for the numbers of other Russian families they managed to bring to America. Hyman Horenstein worked as a barber and founded the Oregon Barber College at SW Second and …
Read MoreEugene Nudelman Sr. was born in 1906 in Portland, Oregon. He is the grandson of Joseph Nudelman who brought an agricultural colony from Russia in the 1880s to start an agrarian collective farm in North Dakota. When that farm failed the group moved to Nevada and then California before arriving in Portland, where there were …
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