A Surviving Letter
“Jewish girls were sitting in this cell. We were told we were to be shot. If a Jew will pass here and survive, I beg him, since I have brothers…
The Birth of 36 Children During the Doctors Plot
My great grand-mother Yelena Diment, a physician after living through WWII and seeing horrible things was forced to live through Stalin’s Doctors plot, threatening not only her profession but her…
Ozriel Family Choir
The Oziel family are my maternal ancestors. In the time of the Beit Hamikdash, members of the עוזיאל family were the singers in the synagogue, and today we continue to…
Joseph Moishe Weber story
My name is Sarah Anschell and My Family Story display is called: The Weber & Fields Music Hall, the name of one of the theaters owned by my great, great,…
Everybody in the Family
.My family history is similar to all Jewish families during World War II. They were forced flee Nazi persecution, but that's why I was born as I am .My great-grandfather, Cesare…
Doreen Marx Krulewitch
The Slice of Jewish Life AN INTERVIEW AND VISIT ABOUT “THE SUNDAY AFTERNOON OF MUSIC” SERIES, ITS FOUNDER, DOREEN MARX KRULEWITCH AND HER HUSBAND, FINANCE DIRECTOR AND PARTNER, BYRON KRULEWITCH…
Jenny Zanzuri's Grandsons Ask her About her time in Libya
The Slice of Jewish Life The testimony of Jenny Zanzuri is an interview of her with her grandchildren David Beiner (left) and Steven Beiner (right). Jenny Goldfarb Zanzuri was born…
Katz's, Barnetts, and Segals
The Barnett saga as remembered from anecdotes and stories told to me by my late mother-in-law, Mary Barnett (Katz) born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The Katz's Mary's maternal grandmother, Liba…
קשיים ועליות מחייו
יעקב הוא אדם בן 75, אשר נולד בעיר חומסר באיראן - פרס. הוא ומשפחתו עלו לארץ אבל לא סתם עלו, יש לכך סיפור. יעקב היה ילד כמו כל הילדים והוא…
My Grama's Story
My first visit to Israel was in 1959. I was then a university student in America. Israel was young and looking to the future. There where so many thnigs to…
The story of my Great Aunt
Anita was born in the Bronx New York where she lived on a street near a building that children came to study music in. She would hear girls auditioning and…
Growing up in New Haven, CT
My grandpa is named mark kasowitz. He was born in October 19, New Haven Connecticut. He lived in a two family house. His grandparents lived on the first floor with…