Jeanne Mittleman Newmark was born in Portland, Oregon on April 10, 1930 to Helen and Harry Mittleman, the youngest of four girls. Her sisters were Marian, Charlotte, and Babette. Helen and Harry Mittleman were both born in Nebraska in 1900 and, after marrying, moved to Castle Rock, Washington, where Harry owned a grocery store. When …
Read MoreJerome “Jerry” Newman was born to Jennie and Alex Newman in Portland, Oregon at the Wilcox Memorial Hospital on August 15, 1934. Jerry and his brother Simon were first generation Americans. Jerry’s father was born in Poland, coming to Portland after his bar mitzvah, and his mother immigrated to the United States from Russia. As a …
Read MorePatricia Neuberger’s father, Gerson “Gert” was born September 27, 1914 in Germany on his parents’ livestock farm. Her mother, Erna, was born September 15, 1914 in Vienna and worked as a seamstress at a woman’s clothing store. Gert immigrated to Baker, Oregon in 1934 when he was about 20 years old, although Neubergers had been in Baker since …
Read MoreLeah Tkatch Nepom was born in Fredonia, Kansas, on February 29, 1928 (a leap year birthday). Her parents, Chaya and Yelic (Joe), were immigrants from Russia. They landed first in Illinois, but upon hearing of cheap land for sale, relocated to Fredonia, Kansas, where Leah and both of her sisters, Bessy and Edna, were born. She …
Read MoreMadeline Brill Nelson was born on May 8, 1924 in Portland, Oregon. She grew up in her grandfather’s house on SW Montgomery Drive and Jackson Street, attended Hillside School and Catlin Gabel in Portland and Stanford University. She was a bio-chemistry major and continued in college despite her engagement to Roscoe Nelson in 1942, whom she …
Read MoreWilliam “Bill” Naito was born in Portland on September 16, 1925. His parents, Hide and Fukiye, had emigrated in 1912 from Japan, and Hide ran a successful retail and wholesale business. Bill liked to remind people that, because no one would hire Japanese men for a “real” job, they had to start businesses on their own. …
Read MoreCharlotte Mitchell was born Lotte Wieland in Gleiwitz, Oberschlesien (Germany) on July 20, 1916. She had three sisters: Ruth, Lora and Hilde. Charlotte attended school through the eighth grade, after which time Nazi pogroms made it impossible for her to continue. Her sisters were fortunate enough to emigrate to Palestine before the pogroms were enacted. …
Read MoreJohn H. Miller was born on February 18, 1907 in Neunkirchen, Germany the eldest of three children of Simon and Flora (Kahn) Mueller. His brother Walter (born in 1908) and Greta (Salomon born in 1910) followed. Their parents Simon and Flora ran a men’s clothing store in Düsseldorf. John was educated as far as high school. …
Read MoreAnne Bloch Miller was born in 1912 in Cologne, Germany. She had a sister, Hilda, and a brother, Helmut. Her mother died when she was seven years old, and her father remarried three years later. Anne married her husband, Hans Mueller, on February 22, 1935 and they lived in Essen, just outside of Cologne, where …
Read MoreAlan Miller was born in 1939 to Harold and Edith (Ottenheimer) Miller. The Miller family had been in Oregon since 1886 when Henry Miller started Miller’s Hat Company, which became Miller’s Clothing Company, and then Miller’s For Men. The store closed in 1987 after 100 years in business in several locations in downtown Portland. Alan’s grandfather, …
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