Eva Lamfromm Labby was born on June 25, 1929 in Augsburg, Germany to Paul and Marie Lamfromm. Eva had two older sisters, Gertrude Lamfromm Boyle and Hildegard Lamfromm. The family fled Nazi Germany in 1937 and came to Portland, Oregon, where Paul’s older brother Max had immigrated in 1903. Paul purchased the Rosenfeld Hat Company, …
Read MoreDaniel Labby’s life experience reflects the second generation Jewish immigrant experience of the Portland Jewish Community. Born in New York on September 1, 1914, Daniel moved with his parents, and his father’s extended family, including uncles, aunts, and grandparents to SW Portland before 1920. They were sponsored in their immigration by Henry Miller. Daniel’s paternal …
Read MoreArnold Labby was born in Portland, Oregon on August 25, 1924. He attended Laurelhurst Elementary, Grant High School, and Lewis & Clark and Reed colleges. His father’s family, originally named Labkowski, was from Georgia and came to the US in 1905 with Arnold’s father Harry, who became a dentist. His mother’s family (Goldfarb) came to …
Read MoreJakob Kryszek was born in 1918 in the tiny town of Podebbitz, Poland. He was the fourth of six children, three boys and three girls. He moved to Lodz, Poland when he was a young man and began working. When he was 21 years old, the Nazis invaded Poland and his entire family – brothers …
Read MoreRoselle Kleinberger was born on May 8, 1922 to Elsa Rosenstihl Levy and Julius Levy in Dahn, Germany, a small, Catholic town near the French border. Her father was a traveling salesman and aided families with legal issues, and her mother ran their textile store. There was a synagogue for the 15 Jewish families who …
Read MoreLeonard Kaufman Jr. was born in Portland on June 11, 1926. His maternal grandmother was Emma Selling, who was related to the Sellings in Portland. His paternal grandfather was Isaac Kaufman (husband of Clara Dilsheimer) who started the A.P. Hotaling wholesale liquor and brewery business in Portland. Leonard Kaufman Sr. joined the military during the …
Read MoreSuse Katz was born on August 23, 1926 to Adolf and Betty Grombacher in Ludwigshafen, Germany. She had one brother, Gerd, who was three years older than her. In 1935 her parents obtained affidavits from relatives living in Chicago that allowed the family to travel to the States. They boarded a ship in December of …
Read MoreIlse Jacobsen was born March 4, 1924 to Isidor and Marie Odenheimer in the town of Odenheim in southern Germany, where her father ran a dry goods store. Her family had lived there for many generations. At age ten she was sent away to a Jewish boarding school because the anti-Semitic condition of the school in her small town …
Read MoreLesley Isenstein was born April 17, 1946 in Seattle, Washington. The family joined a Reform synagogue and Lesley went through Confirmation there. She studied for a year at Mills College and then graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in English literature, and from UC Davis with a master’s in English. She met …
Read MoreRabbi Daniel Isaak was born in San Francisco on June 5, 1949, the son of Helmut and Ellen Isaak. His parents were German refugees who had escaped Nazi Germany. As a teenager, Rabbi Isaak actively participated in his synagogue, became involved in USY and attended Camp Ramah in Ojai, California, where he returned for several …
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