https://www.halborns.net/stories daily 1.0 2025-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/cb028823-fedf-402a-96be-07ed5f9949c9/Ankiel+Halborn+%281791%29+descendants-c.jpg https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-79g8e monthly 0.5 2025-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742262348538-1CM5KQK5HJ1QD9SE2B0W/Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_06b-1.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto This picture, originally captioned "Mit Gewalt aus Bunkern hervorgeholt" (Forcibly pulled out of bunkers), was taken by one of the German photographers who accompanied Jürgen Stroop's troops in the April and May of 1943 action to crush the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, to destroy the ghetto, and to murder the remaining inhabitants. It was used, along with dozens of other photos to illustrate General Stroop's report on the action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/47865f64-950f-4eb9-b97b-1b176c5128fc/Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_-_IPN29.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto - Make it stand out This photo from the Stroop Report, originally captioned "Abtransport von Juden" (Transporting of Jews onward), was taken in May, 1943 on Zamenhofa Street as the ghetto was being demolished. (More photographs from the Stroop report can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_Report) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742263835047-EE7QXKRHS228I18S57D4/49-Leszno-after-war-by-Stefan-Weinfeld.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto The courtyard of 49 Leszno Street photographed in 1946 by Roman Weinfeld's father, Stefan Weinfeld. He wrote on the back of the photo: "The building on Leszno Street 49 where my father was working." (see Chapter 12 of our family history, The Halborns: Ancestors - Immigrants - Survivors) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742263836853-GFY9MV1D6613REUA2M0J/Warsaw-Leszno-st-after-war-by-Stefan-Weinfeld.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto An overview of part of the Warsaw ghetto in a photograph taken by Stefan Weinfeld in 1946. On the back of the photo Weinfeld wrote: "On this place were standing large five story buildings of the Muranów district of Warsaw." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742263834836-Y6MK9TE1X4C8GVEBRSAJ/Alina-Michaela-Marian-1980s.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto Alina Najberg (nee Halborn), Michaela Najberg and Leon Najberg in Israel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742263836060-1S5AQR37Q3OG9BIEPTGC/Gil-Dnial-Shiff-Leon-Najberg-Michaela-Majberg-Schiff-2008.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto Leon Najberg with three generations of descendants, in Israel, 2009, shortly before his death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/b082a7f9-b7d7-471e-b322-a4f1254dff02/Monument_to_the_Ghetto_Heroes_Warsaw.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto - Make it stand out Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial, located in the former ghetto, on Zamenhofa Street near the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/b7d66812-1197-450c-bf84-084f67203362/najberg-copy.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto - Make it stand out Leon Najberg, photographed after the Shoah. Najberg was just 17 years old during the uprising and just 18 in September 1943, when he was one of the last fighters to escape from the ghetto. https://www.halborns.net/stories/roasted-beet-wedges-with-tzatziki-wtspc monthly 0.5 2025-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/b612c1c6-a3ba-4e13-8c99-80691b5cf9be/Abramson_S+family+late+1923.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 - Make it stand out Samuel Abramson (Shimsel Matskevitch) and family, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736634639602-5MQZDDJO601N7VGINW9M/1992+At+the+Baltic++021.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736634640181-YX7Q7H9UTU6FIRZYY3MG/1992+At+the+Baltic++022.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/9c94c270-2178-4121-8a60-fac5be84fd52/Statue+of+Liberty+from+Ellis+Island.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 - Make it stand out The Statue of Liberty from inside the barred windows of the Ellis Island reception hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736633438980-JZXWWMJXOVUFLWKF9AEG/1990-94+N%26+students+044.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Norm with students who set up a satellite communication dish on the roof of the University of Hawaii engineering building in the late 1980s, when wireless Internet access using ALOHA technology was becoming a reality. Diamond Head is in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736633451799-RDC6LJOZNORQKM0N7QY5/1990-94+N%26+students+043.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Norm in the Aloha Systems laboratory with some of his students around 1990. It is interesting that most of the students involved in the project were foreign nationals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/6f741528-cfca-441b-95c6-776c7dd06dba/2008+Ellis+Island.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 - Make it stand out Norm stands in front of one of the Ellis Island exhibits and listens to the audio narrative. Shimsel and Minna and Osher Matskevitch and their spouses were fortunate in the timing of their immigration. The last Matskevitch sibling to immigrate, Motl, came in 1927, when quotas were in place. His entry was fortunate as well and was probably enabled by the fact that he had four siblings who were already living in America. Jews who tried to enter the United States to escape the Holocaust during the 1930s were not fortunate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/ddfad77c-b153-405b-be58-4b0a13de4a4a/1965-69++Norm+with+PDF+wireless.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 - Make it stand out A photo of Norman Abramson taken in the mid-1970s, before the personal computer (1980) and the cellular telephone (1983). The photo was taken while he led the ALOHA Systems laboratory, the group which developed the ALOHAnet, which implemented the first wireless data network. He is holding a mock up of a wireless communication device he predicted would be enabled by the new digital technology. The mock up was put together with a small digital calculator and an automobile antenna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736631331597-AYVUFTJFIP635LBU2DO5/Harry+Rachel+and+Shimsel.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Harry Abramson with Rachel and Samuel Abramson in Reading after his arrival in the United States in 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736631426991-1AK6KDSNBKAZDLE1W809/1923-+Harry%2C+Minnie+%26+Edward+Abramson.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Harry Abramson, on the left, and newly arrived younger brother Eddie Abramson, on the right with Minna Abramson Smalovitz in the middle. The photo was taken either in Reading or in Dorchester, Massachusetts after Eddie's arrival in the United States in 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736631481862-W9QJLKSXYCYLOET5BBUL/1927+Eddie+Max+Samuel%2CHarry.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Eddie, Max, Samuel and Harry Abramson in Reading after the arrival of Max in 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736631541674-JJAR9LWKB9C2WHMHJ4HR/Abramsons+2+Sep+1929.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Samuel, Harry and Eddie Abramson with Harry's wife, Martha, Samuel's wife Rachel and Eddie's fiancée, Esther Vaslavsky. Eddie, who was the youngest of the brothers to immigrate, brought Esther to meet his family in Reading in 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736631660443-9NP02CVSPAZG73TEFW1N/Abramsons_Martha+Pearl+%26+Esther+1929.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Martha Abramson, Samuel's daughter Pearl, and Eddie's fiancée. Esther Vaslavsky in 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736631698814-WP41KR46A1LXCTT1R0A8/Abramsons+1929.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Esther Vaslavsky with three Abramson brothers in a photo taken by Eddie Abramson in 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736632101618-9AHUORFQAG3OSYRL9M9L/Smolovitz_Joseph+Minne+and+family.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Norm's aunt and uncle, Joseph and Minna Smolovitz and family, 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736632160564-6Q6KF9F8E5G2PP1Y7M25/1910+-+JosephSmolovitz.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Joseph Smolovitz and his milk wagon, 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736632225234-FCL8WMTGUJU2TORZCFLK/Harry_Martha_Bernie+Abramson.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Norm's Uncle Harry and Aunt Martha Abramson and oldest son, Bernard, 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736632274737-1X15Z74HYJXRD007948X/Eddie+and+Esther%2C+1929.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Wedding of Norm's parents, Esther and Edward Abramson in 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736632308308-TMNLWFGNZGK657TFSIYL/Max+and+Anna.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Wedding of Max and Anna Abramson, early 1930s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736632367331-98EWHG1LEH9JM9HSXPHD/Norm%26Esther+1933-++017.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Esther Abramson with 18 month old Norm, 1933. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736632422943-V2B3ZG2CTNNJKCGAE916/1937+Norm+birthday++003.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Party for Norm's fifth birthday in 1937. Norm's mother, aunties and their friends stand behind him. Many of the children at the table are cousins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736632455540-CMUGIRGBLJ0HALB0AEP4/Norm+Arlene+37+004.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Norm and his cousin Arlene Abramson, 1937. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736632489726-66H3IMWB948XC2O08F46/Norm+at+4+-++018.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Norm in Indian costume sent by a friend of Esther's in about 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736632537619-U421Z21E0LERYQUFZSRB/1935-39+Norm%26Eddie+007.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Norm and his father, Eddie Abramson, on the front porch of their home on the ground floor of a duplex in Dorchester in 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736632584025-0BKMOPX19YVICTN2R3FX/1945+Norm+bar+mitzpah+001.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Esther and Eddie Abramson with their two children: Norm, age 13 and Harriet, age 3. The picture was taken at Norm's bar mitzvah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736632691470-4Z2ZTJK5SW1O4DXE5XYW/Norm%27s+Bar+Mitzvah+Party+1945+182.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Norm’s bar mitzvah party. Six of Norm's cousins can be seen in this photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/f1f56fbe-76e1-40ef-b49c-1c10ed7e4194/Norm+undergraduate+041.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 - Make it stand out Norman Abramson in his undergraduate years at Harvard. Photographed in about 1951. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/9405febf-8ddc-4677-8308-96479e9d1a3e/siblings+to+America.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 - Make it stand out Shimsel (Samuel) Abramson is seated. Osher (Eddie), Motl (Max), Minna (called Mamie by some family members) and Yirml (Harry) stand behind him. The picture was probably taken in the early 1930s, but it isn't known whether it was taken in Reading, where Shimsel lived, or in Boston where the four other siblings lived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/fb9b7770-7063-4d03-9e6f-265257e37e27/1970-74+125.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 - Make it stand out Norm and Joan Abramson in Hawaii in the early 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736634832774-NLPS9ENAV3HYH7D7ST4D/1992+Alytus++019.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736634833010-ETLJ3MKO1HAJQSJ0ULKO/1992+Alytus+006.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736634833961-F0WAFEVKO3RX4Q9JXI58/1992+Alytus+007.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736634834373-6E6QWPG9NT3AJCM1NB9B/1992+Alytus+010.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736634861058-308542P9V53Q0EJL4WEJ/Alytus+%26+Baltic+1992+067.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736634834871-CQ6OI7MOG79RCHB5DO02/1992+Alytus+046.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736634861282-JJD3MSNDU3RIPF5JO1O3/Alytus011.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736634835501-5ASV6QFGYM39ZFPL5B8X/1992+Alytus+047.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736630126356-LIMH09B29A5RREWBS9UB/Norman+Abramson+surfing+Waikiki%2C+1989. Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Norman Abramson surfing Waikiki, 1989. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736633973013-Y5IL3BO6G3YWW6DY0P5U/2000+Rhein+award+174.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 Eduard Rhein Stiftung Award, Munich, 2000. "ALOHANET – THE FIRST RADIO NETWORK FOR WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS for the invention of fhe random access protocol ALOHA and the first realization worldwide of a radio-network for both local and satellite based Internet access of uncoordinated data terminals and for the invention and realization of spread-spectrum ALOHA to reach a higher performance, recognizing the imminent importance of ALOHA worldwide for all mobile and wireless radio networks." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736634232785-8H54DPJ29P6B4K2LO1UH/Bell+Award+2007.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, Philadelphia, 2007. "Norman Abramson is a pioneer in the field of wireless and local area networking. While at the University of Hawaii, he led efforts that gave rise to the construction and operation of the ALOHAnet, the first wireless packet network, and to the development of the theory of random access ALOHA channels. ALOHA channels have yielded significant advancements within wireless and local area networking, with versions still in use today in all major mobile telephone and wireless data standards. This influential work also developed the core concepts found today in Ethernet." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736634232602-GHIAQGV8NWIA3ZAQG8O7/2011+NEC+Award010.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 2 NEC Computer and Communications Award, Tokyo, 2011 "For Outstanding Leadership Resulting in the Invention, Standardization, and Commercialization of Internet Packet Access, Beginning with ALOHANET and Then Ethernet" https://www.halborns.net/stories/backyard-cookout-prwsg monthly 0.5 2025-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736625570081-82943WCAXCOCXBGCKLUS/Norm+1968-9+047.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 Norman Abramson with his surfboard on the beach at Waikiki, Hawaii in 1969. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736626978050-POESYQUALKLRY0U1L6ND/Avram+Abramson+1910+001.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 Avram Selig Matskevitsch, father of the Alytus family, and Norm Abramson’s grandfather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736626996766-ZQN1NEPVJG2KZ78YGUDH/Eddie+mom+005.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 Chaya Riva Matskevitch, nee Yankelevitsxc, mother of the Alytus family and Norm Abramson’ grandmother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736627016443-39G3M1FJG70G49GARN11/Abramson_Harry+1.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 Yirml (Harry) Matskevitch in school uniform, about 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736627035182-7AMH49427XDOSKOSIPY5/Fival_Fruma.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 Fival Matskevitch, and his wife, Fruma, nee Berlinska, about 1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736627056783-LFFRTD84Q35PTDBF7070/Basiukevitsh_Taibe+and+Shlomo.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 Taibe Matskevitch and Shlomo Basuskievicth photographed in about 1920 or 1921, the year they were married. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736627083787-VQPLWNZ9YD4EUZOG2060/Matskevitch_Noah+%26+Freeda.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 Noah and Frida Matskekevitch, nee Lentes, 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736626247724-VXENZMLJ0QQS5C3Q7MAM/1906+about+Matskevitsh_Taibe+and+Minne.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 Taibe and Minna (Mamie) photographed before Minna's departure for America in 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736626282100-4GRG6RJZOEKK3ZHWHVY0/Matskevitsh_Harry+and+Taibe.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 Taibe and Yirml (Harry) photographed before Yirml left Alytus in 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736626310803-F23J2VT5AEA36LZN1O81/Matskevitsh_Max+Eddie+Taibe+Fival+%26+Shlomo+B.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 Motl (Max), Osher (Edward), Taibe, Noach and Taibe's husband Shlomo Basukievich before Osher and Motl left after World War One. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/e7c71c91-a1d6-44be-87eb-78991fa463ce/Taiba+and+Shlomo+wedding Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 - Make it stand out A photograph taken at the wedding ceremony of Taibe Matskevitch and Shlomo Basukievitch in the early 1920s. The ceremony took place before Taibe's brother, Osher (Edward), left for America. Taibe is wearing a white veil and stands next to Shlomo. The young man in the white school cap who stands a few people away, to the left, is her youngest brother, Noach. Her younger brother Osher can be seen second from the right side of the picture wearing a white school cap. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/d184575e-8ad4-4eb1-8c0f-e4db51ad2a53/Matskevictch+about+1908.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 - Make it stand out The Matskevitch family in Alytus in about 1907. Abram and Chaya Rifka Matskevitch are surrounded by their six youngest children. Standing left to right are Fivel ,Yirml (Harry),Taibe and Motl (Max). Standing to the right of Chaya Rifka is Noach, the youngest son. Sitting between his parents is four year old Osher (Edward), Norman Abramson's father. The two oldest children, Shimsel (Sam) and Minna (Mamie), immigrated to the United States in August, 1907 and are not in this photo, which may have been taken as a memento for them to carry with tremor taken after they left and sent to them in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736628377304-0BAZ44GO2VI9VNPL16BV/Matskevitsh_Fival+and+Taibe+and+families+1931.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 A country outing near Alytus, probably the late 1920s or early 1930s. From the left: Fruma and Fivel Matskevitch and their children, Yankel and Gitele; Taibe and Shlomo Basukievitch and their children, Yudel and Aysa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736628396170-8XA4IQEYM8TAX2PV8HN5/Alita+Summer+1934.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 Summer 1934, after Chaya Rifka moved to Siauliai, probably to live with daughter Taibe and her family. From the left are Noach Matskevitch, Chaya Rifka, Taibe Basukievitch, and Noach's wife, Frida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736628413668-7XVVZT2932ETB72AJPOC/Noach+and+wife.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 Noach and Frida Matskevitch and their daughter, Galya. Galya was born in 1937, so the photo probably dates from 1939 or 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736628432108-QGOD8XAQXPFKE11NR2TD/abramson+pix_3.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 In Siauliai, 1936, probably at Passover. From the left: Shlomo Basukievitch. Yudel Basukievitch, Frida Matskevitch, Chaya Rifka Matskevitch, Taibe Basulievitch, Aysa Basukievitch, Noah Matskevitch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/2b8b1646-4832-4290-ac8b-14e2874c0a82/Broken+Mogen+David+in+Alitus.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 - Make it stand out A broken Star of David which stands as a the memorial in the woods on the outskirts of Alytus where the Matskevitch family often gathered. The memorial is near the pits that served as mass graves during the slaughter of Jews by Einsatszgurppen 3 between June and December, 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/9f4683f1-7ac6-4042-b74c-61eb70f79174/ABRAMS%7Efuneral.jpg Stories - Alytus to the Internet, part 1 - Make it stand out Funeral of Abram Selig Matskevitch, 1931. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s monthly 0.5 2025-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736645572156-DS8AO4HZT8AITILV0WQX/1922+Jack+decl+of+intent.jpg Stories - Citizens Halborn descendant Jacob Freulich: Declaration of intent to become a citizen of the United States, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736645735324-6H0GIF0Z24FHQVK4S6SC/1923+Eddie+Abramson+declaration+of+intent.jpg Stories - Citizens Edward Abramson (on the left): Declaration of intent to become a citizen of the United States, 1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736645797750-AGTNQA1FAAQGYXYYD0IT/1923+Esther+naturalization+petition.jpg Stories - 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Photo by Roman Freulich https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-fnnx5 monthly 0.5 2025-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742261361525-P2ALT5X65CCJTTEACGHE/Stalinowet-sml.jpg Stories - The Internet Was Right Citizenship papers for Katia Merkin, wife of Halborn descendant Roman Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/99d06e84-a6c7-4403-8fa5-fae51d9788d5/karta+Halborn+Samuel+p1-sml.jpg Stories - The Internet Was Right - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-m7j7x-cpe3j monthly 0.5 2025-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/abfdd3b7-166b-4f34-8265-f17403a55656/JDC+list+of+refugees+in+Kovno.jpg Stories - Where Was Rafał? - Make it stand out Rafał's name is number 2563 in the list of Polish refugees the Joint Distribution Committee was trying to assist in leaving Europe during early 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/5c0905da-2d69-4491-8cf1-5355c56931df/Joint+Distribution+Committee+letter.jpg Stories - Where Was Rafał? - Make it stand out Cover letter sent from Vilnius office of the JDC in early 1940 accompanying a list of over 9,000 Polish refugees in Vilnius. 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Rafał Jeleń in front of the Lodz Altshul in March, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/d57618af-9827-4a7f-9666-aedcfffc049e/RF+Lodz+38+201.jpg Stories - Where Was Rafał? - Make it stand out Rafał Jeleń and his uncle, Roman Freulich, in Częstochowa, March 1938. https://www.halborns.net/stories/blueberry-sour-cream-swirl-pln63 monthly 0.5 2025-01-12 https://www.halborns.net/stories/apple-waffles-hxj3j-dt322 monthly 0.5 2025-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/c8d81492-6add-4fc8-a050-32ea3a157d56/Helena+Halborn+1927.jpg Stories - Helena Halborn's Memoir - Make it stand out Helena Halborn, 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/be4991bb-7b41-4b11-8092-8bc2191c2ffb/helena+gravesite.jpg Stories - Helena Halborn's Memoir - Make it stand out Family gathered at Helena's gravesite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739057619330-YWDZ1LC2KMXXTN9519L0/Helena+at+99.jpg Stories - Helena Halborn's Memoir Helena Halborn with her children, several of her grandchildren, and her caregiver, on her 99th birthday. https://www.halborns.net/stories/u3tbn739g5ytrzluyace0ee9hn65j4-zppec-5fj7w-gl496-byhnp monthly 0.5 2025-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/49ab9c0e-c2e7-456b-8cc5-e34769e426c9/1947+to+England.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/74e2167b-1517-4225-8f86-7cdba43bcc27/1945+1+17+to+mittlebau+%28USED%29+Leon+Oberman+w+wife+and+parent+names.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out Leo gave the name of his wife as Fela O, born Szere. Notice also that his nationality in this document, which appears to be signed by Leo, is "Pole". The date of birth remains 1912, the day is December 31, and the place is Częstochowa. This document and other documents created at Buchenwald and Dora Mittelbau were not yet available when Leo was at Bad Wildungen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/4894debb-c75e-47d7-81e3-7cd6a094890d/Leon+%26+Tosca.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/262d8aca-e458-4a8e-8fc9-c35ca5fd275c/Bad+Windungen+dediation+memorial+to+victims+%28USED%29.jpeg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out Memorial stone to the Jewish victims of Nazism. The stone was erected on the site of a former synagogue that was destroyed on Kristallnacht. The ceremony took place in Bad Wildungen, in Hesse, Germany in the summer of 1946. (Copyright, United States Memorial Museum, courtesy of Meyer and Rachel Abramowitz.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/bed0ab03-6d2e-44f7-9d08-13489a44ecc3/1952+April+4+Bad+wildungen.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out A letter dated April 28, 1952, from the Criminal Police in Kassel to the International Tracing Service and the Allied High Commissioner for Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/9a47cfad-0cb8-416d-a030-667302c7d12a/1947+Leo++oberman+Possible+1947+emigration+2.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out The Bad Wildungen record states that Leo Oberman left the displaced persons facility on January 13, 1947. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/8dad30b5-99b6-41b6-9d16-879201cae93a/1945+01+17Leon+Oberman+from+Buchenwald2+copy.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out The Buchenwald record states lists Leo Oberman’s date of entry as January 17, 1945 (Eingenwiesen am 17.1.45) Interestingly, it also states that he was born in Częstochowa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/dd836338-e631-4d0c-9615-b03ade2b86b0/1954+%28USED%29+Leo+application+for+citizenship.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out Leo Oberman registered to obtain status as a naturalized United States citizen in 1954. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/0ec5d1f1-74e3-4254-ae21-2c11ac61d705/Leo+Oberman+1912+-.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out The 1995 Social Security death record for Leo Oberman uses the Americanized names for Huna and Rywka Oberman that had been submitted by Leo Oberman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741124290732-YQCFQWRHG29VFVFIWBRK/1947+Leo+Oberman+UNRRA+inquiry+about+birth+place+2+%28USED%29.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America The United Nations Rescue and Rehabilitation Administration document above, filled out on May 8, 1947, states that Leo Oberman was living at Eichlerstrasse 1, in Bad Wildungen since June 1, 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741124309958-5ZKMHBFV19GG7H4CPJEB/18+Aug+%28USED%291952.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America A later document, dated August 18, 1952, by the International Tracing Service, when it was part of the Allied High Commission for Germany, states that he lived in Bad Wildingun from June 1, 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1ced1c85-e01d-4ffa-910c-0f2323c21ad7/1948+TOSCA+INQUIRY+AROLSON+30.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out Note sent to Toska Kein at the address in Berlin that had been provided by Toska’s uncle, Aron Hollander. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/3ed80219-9089-4aaa-88b3-f14b0b3dd2bc/1960s+proof+of+residene-.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out The confusing and overcrowded record of enquiries, searches and reviews for Leo Oberman indicates that the case was closed on March 28, 1952. But the efforts continued beyond the close date, through the remainder of the 1900s and beyond, There is even a date that (though difficult to read) probably corresponds with our enquiry, sent in 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/672b9e93-048f-4847-9ca1-b5c919571046/1945+supplemental+list+2+with+Oberman+at+bottom.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out the title page and page five from one of several lists of prisoners transferred to Buchenwald and Dora Mittelbau in January 1945. Leo Oberman’s name appears at the bottom of the second column of page 5. His brothers name appears on an earlier list, dated January 18, 1945, along with Leo’s. This list is marked “addendum to the change notification from 18-1-45.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/a13b48a2-7611-43b4-b534-043c4ef805b5/1948+Oct+2+ITS+doc+260+of+German+Jews+lists+Leo+and+Toska+%28USED%29.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out A page from a list of foreigners, German Jews and stateless persons living in the Bad Wildungen - Waldeck Displaced Persons Camp. Leo Oberman’s name is the fourth from the bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/a1e9a7e2-e62d-453a-935b-acffe145c3e4/1945+second+list+title+for+leo.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/c29dbcd9-4440-44e3-8b0f-9db4e46f78ab/1948+August+From+Arolson+5+copy.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out Letter sent to Aron Hollander with disappointing information about the location of his niece, Toska. Neither the address nor Toska could be found. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/6ead66e3-915a-455d-bcdd-887e551656a1/Cze%CC%A8stochowa_-_Hasag-Pelcery_plaque_2-1.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out Memorial commemorating the thousands of slave laborers who suffered and died at Hasag-Pelecy in Częstochowa, including many of our relatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/ddfb3383-7c39-4d34-8bea-fd4a4319cafb/1948+handwritten+inquiry+for+Toska+Klein+Polish-.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out A letter from Aron Hollander seeking information about his niece, Tosca Klein. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/ee71d6a3-d7b5-4a32-ae7c-1c4870aa0dc9/1948+Oberman+Leo+and+tosca+immigration.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out A page from the ship manifest for the Queen Mary, arriving in New York on June 22, 1948. Leo Oberman and his wife, Tosca, are listed on lines three and four. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/a06b3c96-5b83-4d3c-ae5e-d9b520cf5e5c/1948+VERIFIES+USA+ADDRESS+IN+ENGLISH.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/bdeab50c-b1f5-403d-98c8-1046e9dddd8a/freddy+fishburn+-+leon+and+tosca+oberman+copy.jpg Stories - The Obermans - America - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.halborns.net/stories/u3tbn739g5ytrzluyace0ee9hn65j4-zppec-5fj7w-gl496 monthly 0.5 2025-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/430231de-4045-4909-bb5d-8c42b510e8e1/1945+Mojzesz+nephritis.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741119857814-6K33XB8GASCUUOBM2U2I/1945+01+17Leon+Oberman+to+Mittelbau.4.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years A record created for Leo Oberman on January 17, 1945, upon his arrival at Buchenwald carries the date he arrived at Mittelbau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741119914371-ULFQ5IMVM4O4K2VOUAA8/1945+Leon+Oberman+to+Mitteelbau.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years This record is stamped “KL Mittelbau 26.1.45” probably indicates the date Leo was sent from Buchenwald to Concentration Camp Mittelbau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741119953231-ATFVDHPQEWWM2L2LTXPE/1945+01+17Leon+Oberman+from+Buchenwald2.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years This record adds the name of Leo’s wife: “Fela O.” All three records wrongly list Leo’s date of birth as December 31, 1912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/104e91f8-df68-448b-901d-8f163fc7d9cb/1945+1+17+to+mittlebau+Leon+Oberman+w+wife+and+parent+names.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/092c65c3-8057-4cbd-a4f1-c440b18633b4/Dora-Mittelbau+forced+labor+camp+730883.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years - Make it stand out Entrance to the underground V2 and V1 rocket factory at the Dora-Mittelbau slave labor camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/7eb89ee5-f2c7-489d-bb5d-48b3720b9411/1940+marriage+Mojzesz+and+Chaja+Katz+copy.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years - Make it stand out Short version of marriage record of Chaja Katz and Mojzesz Oberman, August 27, 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741120551760-28ASKQX74PDAV9R4FS1Q/1945+01+17Leon+Oberman+to+Mittelbau.4.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741120678909-2DV4YPL4JU2UZ2R9I9FA/1945+Mosiek+arrival.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741119201494-49JW8SHEK24OXKKZU91H/1940s+Leon+Oberman+from+Holocaust+Museum+copy.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years The record for Leo Oberman indicates he was in Łódź immediately before the war and in Częstochowa during the war. He was a furrier before the war. The record for Leo also states that he was born December 31, 1904. The year is correct, the date is wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741119213241-XQ0R6LU2EHT0GOL6I0PC/1940+Moszesz+Oberman+Hasag.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years The Hasag Pelcery record for Leon's younger brother, Mojzesz Oberman, is incomplete. According to Częstochowa records, Mojzesz was born on April 15, 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741119232327-17RGZPD0AC2ATP108Y1Y/1940+Helena+Oberman+Hasag.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years The Hasag Pelcery record for Mojzesz’ wife, Helena Katz, states that she was born in Częstochowa, and was in the town both before the war and after the occupation. Her birth is listed on the wrong date and in the wrong month and year. Częstochowa records list her as born on September 15, 1912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741119266388-WUZQ00RS9SD0ATAHOQ1T/1940+Abram+Oberman+Hasag.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years Leon's youngest brother, Abram, is listed as a joiner or carpenter. The record states that he was born in Czestochowa at the end of December 1909 and was in the town and interned in the town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/eaec063f-0c72-4600-a82b-e501738ded58/1945+15+Moniek.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/c5dcccee-ee3b-4430-aeac-25e9dc198b57/Hasag+Pelercy.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years - Make it stand out The Hasag Pelercy munitions plant in Częstochowa photographed after the war. Courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/d14e9ed4-12f6-4cd1-83a4-7aaf940da3aa/1945+Moniek+1+with+hosp+.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/eaff3e2c-77a7-40a3-b268-a80f6f6cc26e/1945+Moniek+w+wife+name.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/5f889a6f-dc5c-406b-8ddd-7be28f4f337b/1904+Oberman_Hersz_Lejb_B.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years - Make it stand out Birth record for Hersz Lejb Oberman, April 2, 1904. Hersz (Leo, as he became known later in live) was born in Częstochowa. He was 12 years younger than his older brother Berek, who left home to study agronomy in Germany and who moved to Israel in the mid 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/3701058f-6588-4b03-b1dd-e949cc4db568/1940+list+of+slave+laborers.jpg Stories - The Obermans - Holocaust Years - Make it stand out The document is titled “List of Jews involved in forced labor” https://www.halborns.net/stories/u3tbn739g5ytrzluyace0ee9hn65j4-zppec-5fj7w monthly 0.5 2025-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740868021912-JNLCQ4FJQBDR2LAT5ZEC/Amnon+Huberman+Richon+Le-Zion.jpg Stories - The Obermans – Israel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740868032134-T07AAXUU3PNPOMSHN0PX/Yoram+Uberman+Rishon+Le-Zion.jpg Stories - The Obermans – Israel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740867158992-LNNYWD9JZGPRSZ1EFMFX/Oberman+Brajkop+copy.jpg Stories - The Obermans – Israel The children of Hersz Lejb Oberman and Laja Brajkop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740867159205-AI5HI0I788CNY7AGV3A2/Oberman+Esseg+copy.jpg Stories - The Obermans – Israel The children of Hersz Lejb Oberman and Laja Essig. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/cc251478-da1d-4629-a9fc-3b0755a6163c/1925+berek_german_leaving.jpg Stories - The Obermans – Israel - Make it stand out The multiple entry visa used by Berek Oberman while he was a student studying agronomy in Germany in the mid 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/32f7f9c6-a804-4b58-8314-089ab04ff92a/Berek+Rishon+L+Zion+1.jpg Stories - The Obermans – Israel - Make it stand out Berek Halborn and Jenta Krakauer had six children and 26 grandchildren, bringing the total of known great grandchildren for our common ancestors Chasia and Ankiel Halborn to an astounding 52. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/8b78501a-7602-4e2f-a2dc-90930c9b29af/1893+Oberman_Berek_B_1893.jpg Stories - The Obermans – Israel - Make it stand out Huna and Rywka’s first child, Berek, was born in Częstochowa in November, 1893 and named after his deceased Halborn grandfather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/84112235-ed21-427f-8369-a8202e3769b0/1946+Berek+Oberman+Palestine+doc+1.jpg Stories - The Obermans – Israel - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.halborns.net/stories/u3tbn739g5ytrzluyace0ee9hn65j4-zppec monthly 0.5 2025-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740865867515-99XCQGIJ25OWNI53AEDA/1870+Halborn_Fajga_Ryfka_B-1.jpg Stories - The Obermans – The Backstory Birth record for Fajga Rywka Halborn, Częstochowa, 1870. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740865889129-SOR70BVH59SWEW55EIAR/1865+Oberman_Chuna_B_.jpg Stories - The Obermans – The Backstory Birth record for Huna Oberman, son of Hersz Lejb Oberman and Laja Essig Częstochowa, 1865. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740865894818-UK7N1IRIRY9SMZEIZI63/1893+Heilborn+Fajga+Rywka+i+Oberman+Huna+M+1893+copy.jpg Stories - The Obermans – The Backstory 1893 marriage record for Fajga Rywka Halborn and Huna Oberman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/b934e2a2-8055-48d6-b566-0765469d83cb/1847+Halborn_Chasia+D.jpg Stories - The Obermans – The Backstory - Make it stand out The 1847 death record for Chasia Halborn, widow of Ankiel Halborn reads: It happened in Żarki on the 12th of November 1847 at ten o’clock in the morning there appeared Mosiek Wajs worker 40 years old and Berek Berman 31 years old and declared that yesterday at 3 o’clock in the morning Chasia Halber has died, 60 years old widow living with her son in law Herszlik Halbern family, leaving behind her sons: Berek 17 years old, Major 14 years old, and daughters Liba married to Herszlik Halbern, worker, Hanka 21 years old, and Gella 19 years old, all living in this very same town. After verifying Chasia Halbern's death with their own eyes the document was read to all gathered and signed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740864814351-PLTON84N40XRO9GR7OQP/Zarki+cemetery.jpg Stories - The Obermans – The Backstory - Make it stand out Unknown gravestones in the mostly destroyed Jewish cemetery in Żarki, where we have traced family roots back to the 18th Century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/333f67cf-31c5-499f-95a4-a56197af3fc8/Berek+Jenta+Halborn.jpg Stories - The Obermans – The Backstory - Make it stand out Berek Halborn and Jenta Krakauer had six children and 26 grandchildren, bringing the total of known great grandchildren for our common ancestors Chasia and Ankiel Halborn to an astounding 52. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/fabc04a2-840b-4577-aab8-c5a4592a2bc9/czesto-1821-map-c_1024.jpg Stories - The Obermans – The Backstory - Make it stand out A cadastral map of Częstochowa in about 1820. The Jewish section of town is located at the bend of the river, on the lower right-hand side of the map. https://www.halborns.net/stories/leaving-orsha monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/be1b0653-d674-4516-bce4-3d99b842ccd6/Orsha+turn+of+20th+century.jpg Stories - Leaving Orsha - Make it stand out An old postcard of Orsha. The photograph was probably taken early in the early 1900s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/ecdcbd99-6972-4e38-98a7-8251c9f4e789/Katia+and+Ida+about+1912003.jpg Stories - Leaving Orsha - Make it stand out A photograph of Katia, standing, and her younger sister, Ida, probably taken in 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/10b64792-4058-42d4-b7db-988eba6f1a6e/1915+NY+state+Merkin+census-mod1-c.jpg Stories - Leaving Orsha - Make it stand out The 1915 New York State population census lists the Merkin family, Zipa, her son and four daughters, on the right hand page, living on the Lower East Side of the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/d739c7b6-368e-4611-9e74-23658c044f36/Miriam+Ida+Katia+1941212.jpg Stories - Leaving Orsha - Make it stand out Three Merkin sisters: Miriam Bernstein, Ida Riskin and Katia Freulich in Los Angeles, 1941. https://www.halborns.net/stories/u3tbn739g5ytrzluyace0ee9hn65j4 monthly 0.5 2025-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/bc71e498-eab9-4fac-929e-7e17afc0aa5f/Judy+Eunice+Joan+Miriam+Louis+Annetta%2C+Katia+1936-7+copy.jpg Stories - The Sibling Keeper - Make it stand out 1936 in Los Angeles: Left to right in front, My sister Judy, Cousin Eunice, and me. Left to right in back, Aunt Miriam, Uncle Louis, Aunt Anita, and my mother, Katia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736824403098-JS62TVCYCBFW9WCRZVGX/1926+Anita+marriage003.jpg Stories - The Sibling Keeper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736824403477-DLS7GUU6Q6NEHRCGZN43/1927+Anita+marriage+3.jpg Stories - The Sibling Keeper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/d9ef4ecf-5161-4339-91cc-61a0d0279fd9/1920s+pos+039.jpg Stories - The Sibling Keeper - Make it stand out Ida Merkin during the 1920s, New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/a729bfd9-1ced-4b7f-a80f-28621d6ed0a5/1919+-20+Anita+Miriam+Katia+Louis.jpg Stories - The Sibling Keeper - Make it stand out A photo taken in 1921 when Anita and Miriam were in school. Anita stands behind my mother, Katia. Miriam stands behind Louis Bernstein, who became her husband a few years later. The photo was taken in Washington Square. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/35e89679-42db-4658-a744-0c60dc9908df/1911-+Ida%26Anita+001.jpg Stories - The Sibling Keeper - Make it stand out Anita and Ida in Orsha before Ida and Katia Merkin left for America in 1912. Anita, the youngest Merkin sibling is seated, her older sister, Ida, stands behind her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736824908649-ZTXZQ6JOE718H25GG7FQ/Rebecca+013.jpg Stories - The Sibling Keeper Rebecca Merkin in Orsha, 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736824918341-AR2B9JXNWC4W3L1KLLXQ/Maybe+Rebecca+children+or+grandchildren+1930s+in+Russia.jpg Stories - The Sibling Keeper Rebecca Merkin (on the left) with others, 1930s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/a2b95291-e60d-42f3-a8bf-d7fc476737dc/Katia+Ida+Rebecca+021.jpg Stories - The Sibling Keeper - Make it stand out Katia, Ida and Rebecca Merkin, at Ida's apartment in New York City. Date unknown. https://www.halborns.net/stories/9nwid5f0wj5xmzhireisofulr9lzhu monthly 0.5 2025-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736827687527-6GEELTUPRUOWXPR1IQGY/2nd+Avenue+Deli002.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli - Make it stand out The 2nd Avenue Deli holds many memories for me. In 2016, when we last visited New York City, the placemats at the 2nd Avenue Deli looked like this. For years the deli was located at the corner of 10th Street and 2nd Avenue in the west village section of Manhattan. My Aunt and Uncle, Ida Merkin Riskin and Abe Riskin, lived at 11th Street and Second Avenue, a short block away. But in 2014 the 2nd Avenue Deli, still using the same name, had moved to 33rd Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/a5a21f46-3a85-44e5-b281-6182ab2a4451/Empire+State+Bldg.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli - Make it stand out The Empire State Building, photographed from our hotel room on 34th Street, near Fifth Avenue in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/b9abf4d3-9782-4dd7-a34e-ba4465907edf/Joan+at+Brandeis+U+1950+2.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli - Make it stand out Joan Freulich at Brandeis University, autumn, 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/f1afb214-ed39-4aae-98ac-45e6df8637ff/1964+NY+w+Rebecca+005-mod1.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli - Make it stand out Norm took this picture on a visit to New York in 1964 when he was on sabbatical at Harvard. Left to right: me, our son, Mark, Aunt Rebecca (a Holocaust survivor Ida had traced and brought to New York), and Ida. Our daughter Carin is sitting on the floor with Abe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736828838505-KE69PP9O3AL9LRYPMNS7/Laguna+Beach+1946.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli Laguna Beach, 1945, Left to Right: my parents, Roman and Katia Freulich, Uncle Abe, me, Etty (Abe’s niece); Auntie Ida; my sister Judy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736828856499-IA5ZJGH15P0JGA9OSWU0/Family+late+%2730s+250.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli An outing to the countryside outside Los Angeles in 1940. Left to right: my sisterJudy, Aunt Ida, cousin Eunice; my mother Katia, me; my Aunt Miriam (one of Ida and Katia’s younger sisters; Miiram’s husband, my Uncle Louis). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736828868906-E2K3CKBYDYNSA1OBNN63/Catalina+cel+1940-41.%29FRAME+FROM+OLD+MOVIE.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli A frame from an old 8 mm family film taken on a day trip to Catalina Island, offshore from Los Angeles, 1940. Left to right: Joan, Ida, Judy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736828886460-MO6MI4JQRRV85OJ0788C/1945-49+B%26W+019.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli Ida and Abe on a trip to Laguna Beach, south of Los Angeles, during a visit in 1945, shortly after they were married. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/e5dcd6ee-2193-49a3-a5f7-85d590ded467/2ndavedeli-980x728.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli - Make it stand out 2nd Avenue Deli at 11th Street and 2nd Avenue in the East Village, before moving to midtown Manhattan in 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/a368a77a-945b-422d-ae01-c549f7c92666/New+York+from+Idas+apt+1968+color++002-mod1.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli - Make it stand out View from Apartment 15A, Ida and Abe’s apartment at 166 2nd Avenue, New York, photographed in the 1960s by my father, Roman Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736831052923-1CVY5YZZG4BPCQ8QDB1B/Judy+Joan+NY+50+207.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli Joan Freulich, with her sister Judith, in New York City, December, 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736831067219-3U3U986IOJH8LYD0MSSP/Abe+1950s+022.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli Abe, sitting at the front window overlooking 2nd Avenue. Ida always kept and tended a row of potted plants on the window sill. The radiator cover just below the sill provided a perfect place to watch 2nd Avenue and the streets that led to Greenwich Village. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/54cf5865-ee85-4eb3-b8aa-f666c7b15aee/1920s+Ida+and+Abe+1920s++003.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli - Make it stand out Ida Merkin and Abe Riskin, 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/7d45ea71-fe42-46b2-94be-62628d0172b5/Katia+Ida+Abe+63+108-mod1.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli - Make it stand out My mother, Ida and Abe, in the early 1960s, in the small dining area, just off the kitchen in apartment 15A where Ida always served her slow cooked everyday meals. The three are looking at one of the paintings Abe purchased from would be artist friends — this one a painting of Abe, napping at the dining area table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736832034608-94IU3VTYX0U5RD9P4O0D/AutoMat1930.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli An interior shot of a Horn and Hardart Automat wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736832049359-MRQJAZGFW3BLEG4UPSF0/hth-automat-2.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli A postcard distributed at an Automat explaining how the system worked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/6cd5be9d-5f1a-4a89-877e-81fe52ba1781/1950-54+family021.jpg Stories - Second Avenue Deli - Make it stand out Ida and Abe Riskin, in the early 1950s. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-m7j7x monthly 0.5 2025-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741995772291-ZLVXKJ63E0YVM8KAUYKA/Nisla+Roman+Paulina+Sora+back.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741995798104-CYFQZJPMAG25WRXX1Y0I/1926+Rafael+photo+back001.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał The portrait of young Rafał at the start of this post had these words written on the back: "As proof of my remembrance I am sending my image to my dear Uncle and Auntie. Rafałek" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/04ec10f9-94e0-4192-9f3d-f23bca009093/1944+Jelen+from+Kauen+copy.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał - Make it stand out Rafał Jeleń's name is the ninth in the first column. He is listed as prisoner number 86103, a Polish Jew from Litzmannstadt, birthdate September 11, 1916. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/5caa3865-23ac-40d1-9521-5b6295f5d8ba/Leitmeritz+crematorium.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał - Make it stand out View of the crematorium in Leitmeritz, 1945. Because of the high number of deaths, the SS 1944 commanded the construciton of a crematorium in a brick factory on the Leitmeritz grounds. Prior to the construction of the crematorium, bodies of dead prisoners were shipped to Theresienstadt for cremation. The photograph is from the Theresienstadt Memorial Museum collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/a31abbb5-8ac5-4bfd-b696-f0fc9536d3a9/1945+Jelen+transport+in+January+1945.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał - Make it stand out Rafał's name is the fifth one on this page, which is marked 8 Seite - page 8. The typed explanation at the top states that the list is of 835 Jewish prisoners selected for transport from Concentration Camp Dachau to labor camp Leitmeritz on January 7, 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/19d0aad9-6ad2-4130-8289-beb90a6ff4db/1900--+Poland002.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał - Make it stand out A photo of Paulina, Nisla, Roman and Salome Freulich in Częstochowa in about 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741997180716-5E4LG7506653395GIXRE/1938+Rafael+and+-+Alexander+Nevski+Cathedral+Lodz.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał Rafał with Helena Frejlich and three Jeleń relatives at small park near the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741997239095-SG89GONRG54N7HA2MZZP/RF+Lodz+38+200.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał Probably one of Rafał's cousins in the courtyard of Nisla Mirla's apartment building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741997181222-PQ845D2BCSLSPFCAHGUQ/1938+Pos++Chava+Jelen+in+Lodz.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał This young girl may have been Rafał's niece, Miryam Jeleń, the nine year old daughter of Rafał's half brother, Leon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741997239124-QX7YAQEZFW025G5EPTYC/RF+Lodz+38+178.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał Roman Freulich with his sister Helena and three Jeleń relatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741997240417-R5GZFMLDXHMBWASNM7D1/RF+Lodz+38+183.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał Helena Frejlich with one of Rafał's relatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741998089620-TH7M0PFVHMRTQX7PM0PV/young+woman+and+Rafal+2.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał Rafał with one of his Jeleń relatives - possibly a cousin - one of the older daughters of Maurice Jeleń. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741995172490-S1U5CG8SSWAI6V7K0J0A/1926+approx+date+Rafal+Jelen.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał Nine year old Rafał Jeleń in Łódź in 1925. The photo, sent to "my dear Uncle and Auntie" supplied an incomplete clue to the identity of the boy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/18d5a8bb-34c1-4d62-8c21-35c97964c022/Early+30s+Rafal.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał - Make it stand out Rafał Jeleń sent this photograph to his uncle, Roman Freulich in California. The portrait may have been taken to mark his graduation from gymnasium. The back contained a greeting: "As a sign of my remembrance I am giving my image to my beloved Uncle Roman Frajlich" Loving nephew, Rafał Jeleń, Łódź, August 1st 1935" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741998022050-SFOUS47GI0401L1I9ZRS/Kaufering+inside+hut+from+USHMM.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał Kauferling IV barracks photographed in 1945 after the liberation of the camp. Photograph is part of the collection of the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741998048515-YTFU8G9WTF2J47ZMLS5A/Subcamp+Kafering+1945+USHHM+copyright.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał A view of the barracks after the liberation of Kaufering in April, 1945. The photo is from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the collection of the estate of General Anthony McAuliffe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741996241087-PFYTOUMY3OH1YHV84WN0/1916+Rafal+Jelen+birth..jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał The birth record for Rafał Jeleń was filed in mid-March, 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741996267403-HQZL8OFBHI4XUWW8JZY2/1917+marriage+Sura+Rywka.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał The marriage record for Herman Jeleń and Salome Frejlich was filed on March 31, 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741998607672-KAMQJ1Y08HR7KA5O6LHQ/Site+Richard+in+Leitmeritz.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał Undated photograph of the entrance into an underground factory sites at Lietmeritz. The photograph is part of the collection of the Theresienstadt Memorial Museum. Theresienstadt was located about seven kilometers from the Leitmeritz forced labor sub camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741998429514-B3MTQUBO17QYFRDGROVV/Leitmeritz+entrance.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał The entrance to Richard I. The photograph was taken after the war and is from the collection of the Theresienstadt Memorial Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741998356266-SO2DF480V51GW5AIOPHF/Leitmiester+Richard+from+CZ+site+1.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał Interior of one of the Richard underground factories, photographed after the war. Production of components for army tank engines was started at Richard I before completion of the factory structure. Production at Richard II, which was intended for the manufacture of electrochemical components, was never started. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/94fae82e-f9f5-41bb-83d9-0d98201d7db1/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp_memorial_-_mass_grave_No_2_-_01.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał - Make it stand out One of numerous mass grave sites at Bergen-Belsen. This one reads "Here lie an unknown number of the dead, 1945." Photograph from Norbert Nagel/Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/32c7870e-bd3f-4a85-9d7a-543211c36ccd/1930+Piramowicza.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał - Make it stand out Thirteen year old schoolboy Rafał stands in the courtyard of Number 2 Piramowicza next to his mother, Salome. Left to right next to Salome: Rafał's uncle Jack, grandmother Nisla, cousin Henry and aunt Helena . Jack and Henry were visiting from Los Angeles, California in the early spring of 1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741999169889-V0R8HN62UIN8RKQ2N0P0/9914830+Jelen.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał A page from a list of Leitmeritz prisoners. The date March 1945 is marked in darker ink at the top, though the exact day is unclear. Names with dark crosses (which seem to indicate the prisoner is dead) have no destination marked in the last column. Four of the 11 names without crosses have "Bergen-Belsen" added to the last column. Rafal's name in the 14th on the list. Bergen-Belsen is inked into the last column next to his name. His prisoner number seems to have changed to 42754. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741999120384-US36LJAKN0LE0SVFWV2B/to+Bergen+Belsen10800704_0_1.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał Rafal's name is the seventh in this apparently final list of prisoners sent to Bergen-Belsen. The typed explanation at the top states that the list is of 500 Jewish prisoners selected for transport from Leitmeritz to Bergen-Belsen on March 7, 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/50de3b47-c9c5-4290-a702-2fb55ce003d4/Frajlich+Lodz+2+wo+Ajzyk.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/62b051af-5996-4f31-8c3b-266841c60b96/1920s+Herman+Jelen+address+card.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/2025da7a-c9fb-4a51-941e-c8241939cc97/Rafal-Jelen-1-Mauryce.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/f2974ec0-289f-4fbb-8422-d8a6ac4076ca/1944+45+Kaufering+to+Flossenberg+Jan+1945.jpg Stories - Cousin Rafał - Make it stand out The Dachau record for Rafał provides additional information about his arrival date from Kauen (August 1, 1944), his address in Kauen (Ozeskiesstr. 4), his profession (Schlosser or locksmith), his destination (Kaufering) and his status (Sch.,J - Schutzaft or protective custody, Jew). It also provides information about his departure date and next destination (7 Jan 1945 - Flossenbürg). https://www.halborns.net/stories/ddyw72nh3yhnufc0a5inejo4jmgvfr monthly 0.5 2025-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736904584807-BSOHAVECEUPD3XVC9D1W/Brama_Manufaktury-mod1-c.jpg Stories - Łódź 2010 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740863916224-53ETOHWIAJWAKBAJ8T7Q/IMG_0547.JPG Stories - Łódź 2010 Lobby of the hotel. Machinery from the Poznanski Mill can be seen in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740863916549-JZ0XTEDFW30T8BBHH9F8/IMG_0544.JPG Stories - Łódź 2010 Close-up of textile factory machinery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740863917385-VXBUO9UB27T5YH89CV9S/IMG_0400.JPG Stories - Łódź 2010 Tecxtile machinery from the Poznanski factory is a feature of all the hotel hallways. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740863918209-CE3CJ1LL7BU2XELMMABA/IMG_0317.JPG Stories - Łódź 2010 A small kosher restaurant is located next to the guesthouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740863919007-J64E86OMF0D9ZGRCNCUI/IMG_0314.JPG Stories - Łódź 2010 Joan Abramson and Roman Weinfeld in front of the guesthouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740863919575-FTNMWS0IDJ3A2SR1ZRSZ/IMG_0311.JPG Stories - Łódź 2010 Child care center on the grounds next to the guesthouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740863920146-R3OXV1WZ81A02JX0M853/Cmentarz+w+%C5%81odzi+022-.jpg Stories - Łódź 2010 Joan Abramson dtanding near the spot where her grandmother’s remains were left, in the Łódź Cemetery Ghetto Field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740863922082-FP07RLH8J2ZX5U8ZO4U5/02-IMG_0316.JPG Stories - Łódź 2010 Guesthouse overview. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1740863921822-9OKZZ0BJZ2JB8A4XLK9B/01-IMG_0318.JPG Stories - Łódź 2010 Jewish guesthouse in Łódź. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-f69yb monthly 0.5 2025-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264964401-QVF6XWULFCTO8P247AGV/IMG_0627.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 Żarki Synagogue, now used by the town as a cultural center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264964685-E8Z3RLXVZ53TJ14JXTQM/IMG_0622.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 Side view of the Żarki Synagogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264966050-NO0QO8ICMIMORWXRGVZL/IMG_0629.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 Jewish cultural trail sign in front of Żarki Synagogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264970434-SM94VNHTAKJSWO9ZHAAV/IMG_0629_2.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 Close up of sign in front of Żarki Synagogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264968077-0UCV7H7BFDKE3FOTURMQ/IMG_0638.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 Stanislawa Nowak pointing out the road to the Żarki Jewish Cemetary. With Roman Weinfeld and Norman Abramson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264965911-JG6Q5E0GHSTTFSPQH164/IMG_0630.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 Side road leading to the Żarki Jewish Cemetary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264968303-N5CW3ORP1ILRGVM4BSXF/IMG_0645.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 Sign pointing across an empty lot toward Żarki Jewish Cemetary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264967051-2IDRRIW3UIJ0JDP97R1E/IMG_0631-2.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 Jewish cultural trail sign in front of the entrance to the Żarki Jewish Cemetary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264967329-1UEVFEBSA0JAVA2S5744/IMG_0633.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 Close-up of the sign in front of Żarki Jewish Cemetary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264969223-OLP2XLZ0MH629JWMXKPY/IMG_0649.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 Headstones vandalized during the Holocaust have been set into the cemetary wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264970702-RGKF4SQEHBNSJQJBML14/IMG_0664.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 Norman Abramson and Roman Weinfeld reading headstones in Żarki Jewish Cemetary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264969571-8HE9NJVU57RWNSDEH1LN/IMG_0654.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 Żarki Jewish Cemetary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742264475430-8ABL75C2CTYK1ACF5H5D/IMG_0619.jpg Stories - Zarki 2010 https://www.halborns.net/stories/grandma-katias-garden monthly 0.5 2025-01-14 https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-w5h7a-gb226-mkrty-pa92b-camg5-jmst6-8gm3w-mx427 monthly 0.5 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742092101380-67IFK3OKTFNEESEVKET3/Deportations-1.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 8 Jewish deportees leave Hungary for Auschwitz-Birkenau in the spring of 1944. Between mid-May and early July more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, most to death in the gas chambers. This photo, from Yad Vashem, was used in a May 14, 2014 article in the Budapest Beacon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/5731c6e3-705b-4f87-a977-66f431ec99c6/1952+Ted+Search+naturalization.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 8 - Make it stand out An anti-British demonstration at the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in 1947. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Bayer. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-w5h7a-gb226-mkrty-pa92b-camg5-jmst6-8gm3w monthly 0.5 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/f1ec16d5-2834-44c9-9145-33f3db70a4a1/Ted-arrival-in-US-manifest.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 7 - Make it stand out An anti-British demonstration at the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in 1947. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Bayer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742091206316-0NFZR16FXRLYLQ7ZW4Y2/Marine+Flasher+1946+leaving+Bremerhaven.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 7 The Marine Flasher leaves Bremerhaven in May, 1946, carrying the first group of Holocaust survivors to New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/70265ca2-65c2-4b81-8b22-852cedb4b009/Statue+of+Liberty+early+1950s.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 7 - Make it stand out Statue of Liberty photographed in early 1950s by Halborn descendant Roman Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/18af5154-639e-4435-9a57-c9872900efb9/Bremen+departire+center.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 7 - Make it stand out View of the former Von Tirpitz naval yard, used as a staging area for emigrants leaving Europe through the port of Bremerhaven. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Hennie Schneider. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/c6a6fcab-63b8-484d-be0b-b9018f73f59a/Ship+to+freedom+3.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 7 - Make it stand out Boarding the Marine Flasher, 1947. From the collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A video of one of the many departures of the ship from Bremen can be found at https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1003957 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/fe58af5a-cc9c-40eb-bd3c-7d0b0b11e1f7/Schwartz+immigration.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 7 - Make it stand out Record kept by the the American Joint Distribution Committee for the emigration of brothers Miklos and Tibor Schwartz. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-w5h7a-gb226-mkrty-pa92b-camg5-jmst6 monthly 0.5 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742089521684-HUB8D4S8G05W240OLZC4/Fohrenwald+street+sceen+May+1945%2C+USHMM.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 A street scene in Camp Föhrenwald. The former German military base was turned into a center for displaced persons in June 1945, soon after German surrender. Photo from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/952c4ed3-13a2-4137-80a4-b15f7d8542aa/demonstration+at+Fohrenwald%2C+1947.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 - Make it stand out An anti-British demonstration at the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in 1947. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Bayer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742089903978-FPLC3Y3BACCDDSGL2E4C/ORT+watchmaing+workshop.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 Jewish DPs study watchmaking at ORT school in Föhrenwald. Copyright USHMM, courtesy of Elinor Rosenstein Gabriel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742089927445-CZYKO0BTE75UEU6SAXWI/children%27s+orchestra.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 The children's orchestra at Föhrenwald performs during a Lag B'Omer celebration. Copyright USHHM, courtesy of Marion Pritchard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742090015021-4OX9DQCJ912X00RB7LN8/Partisans+at+Fohrenwalk.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 Group portrait of former Bielski partisans from Nowogrodek taken in Föhrenwald. USHMM, courtesy of Jack Kagan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742090055843-C71STF0ZYAJC90W7GJUY/Hungarian+rabbi+at+Foehrenwald+dp+camp.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 A Hungarian rabbi speaks at Föhrenwald. Copyright USHMM, courtesy of David Bayer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742090084145-EFG7SPGP0KCNCTO1L0CO/Members+of+kibbutz+group+at+Fohrenwald.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 Members of Kibbutz Hatichiya Nocham Hachshara dance a hora in Föhrenwald DP camp. Copyright USHMM, courtesy of Alex Knobler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742090118713-STHFTLP9AFVTYCGOX2VS/socker+team+Fohrenwald.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 The Föhrenwald Maccabee soccer team. Copyright USHMM, courtesy Marion Pritchard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742090164545-G11ES2DKVP9WW98DMKOB/Members+of+fire+dept+Fohrenwald.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 Members of the fire department march along a road at Föhrenwald. Copyright USHMM, courtesy of George Oscar Lee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742090198049-8FT7VETHV4F9ANL1XJQD/clinic+at+Fohrenwald.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 A young girl is weighed at a doctor's office in a sanitorium near Föhrenwald. Copyright USHMM, courtesy of George Oscar Lee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742090246298-GNHFGJLBMZTYZUBJJCOW/Betar+group+on+outting.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 Betar Zionist youth from the Föhrenwald DP camp go on a camping trip. USHMM, courtesy of Esia Baran Friedman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742090298575-CFVV3R8QNAFTXZ0F7DQ3/Zionist+youth+at+Fohrenwald.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 Zionist youth marching through Föhrenwald. USHMM, courtesy of Larry Rosenbach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742090326892-KBER6860XSDI1KTPD3WQ/UNRA+relief+workers+unload+supplies+at+Fohrewald.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 UNRA relief workers unload a truck of supplies at Föhrenwald. Copyright USHMM, courtesy of Marion Pritchard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742090359926-RY6ZHDUOENKXSOFTL3WB/sledding+at+Fohrenwald.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 6 Sally Korn takes Abbie Fegeman sledding in the Föhrenwald DP camp. Copyright USHMM, courtesy of Sally Korn. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-w5h7a-gb226-mkrty-pa92b-camg5 monthly 0.5 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742088492233-J9NDDUMTAYZPUFQO1J9H/approaching-ruin-debrecen-railway-station-after-the-june-2nd-aerial-bombardment.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 5 Debrecen Train Station after June 2, 1944 aerial bombardment. a year before Ted and Mickey Sears returned to the city. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-w5h7a-gb226-mkrty-pa92b monthly 0.5 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742087588799-HXV4P4G0FEOR8FQ5L2PD/Seehaupt+station.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 4 A frame from an uncut U.S. Army film taken at the railway station in the Bavarian town of Seeshaupt on April 30 and May 1, 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742087589118-LJDOU50YT1C6XWKAQZCO/Seehaupt+station+2.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 4 rame showing U.S. troops who found the train was still loaded with hundreds of dead forced laborers from Mühldorf. Bodies were found on the station platform as well; one can be seen between the soldiers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/92dfdfdd-f313-48e4-9e07-1cb7d0712183/Seeshaupt+memorial.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 4 - Make it stand out This two meter high sculpture was finally erected in Seeshaupt in the mid 1990s. According to the town website: "The sculptor Jörg Kicherer has created the memorial - crowned with the words of Antigone: 'To love, not to hate I am.’" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742086877341-IBAGZAO7N1WXJR7AGBI3/Luftaufnahme_Seeshaupt_mit_Kirche-1.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 4 A recent aerial photo of the picturesque Bavarian village of Seeshaupt with the church of St. Michael. By André Rühleia, via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-w5h7a-gb226-mkrty monthly 0.5 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742085830468-7S3SVQIOMB8JDUEKOLC9/Debrecen-Synagogue.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 3 The single remaining arch of Weingut I at the Nazi Mühldorf labor camp. Construction of this underground bunker factory, using slave labor, began in 1944 and was abandoned at the end of WWII. In the foreground is a collapsed arch, with iron rebar protruding from its surface. The ruins are located in the Upper Bavarian district of Mühldorf. Via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/209a6e72-9d8f-4aea-9b67-3521f80c646f/Raoul_Wallenberg_memorial_in_Budapest_13_1.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 3 - Make it stand out Memorial to Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947), Swedish diplomat who worked in Budapest, during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. The inauguration of the original monument carved by Mr. Pál Pátzay was scheduled April 9, 1949 by the Wallenberg Committee but the communist regime removed it during the previous night. The pedestal was destroyed. The sculpture was erected later in Debrecen but its origin was kept secret. Finally it was restored in Budapest on the 50th anniversary of its demolition.Photo via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-w5h7a-gb226 monthly 0.5 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742075052949-KV0BO0TPKCKBC76VS17L/Muhldorf.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 2 The huge arches at Mühldorf were built by first constructing large mounds of rocks and sand, molding reinforced concrete over the mounds, then digging out the rock and sand from under the arches. this photograph was taken near the start of construction of one of the arches. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Stadtarchiv Muehldorf am Inn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742075053168-6MYYVSHL9LETPX4JD1HM/Weingut_1_1945_inside-300x232-2.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 2 Internal view of Weingut I, one of the Mühldorf bunkers under construction by slave laborers, as it was found by the US Army in May 1945. By a soldier from the 47th tank batallion of the 14th division (Third Reich in Ruins) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/78555803-b77a-4f0b-8329-e4ae419e302d/Warnschild_im_Mu%CC%88hldorfer_Hart.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 2 - Make it stand out Warning sign in the Mühldorfer Hart, a forest near Mühldorf, concerning the ruins of the Nazi bunker: "Caution. Danger to Life. Do not enter. We will not be liable. The Municipal administration." Via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742074660258-GIRVZ3OGTA9Z9S134XZP/Weingut_I_bogen.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 2 The single remaining arch of Weingut I at the Nazi Mühldorf labor camp. Construction of this underground bunker factory, using slave labor, began in 1944 and was abandoned at the end of WWII. In the foreground is a collapsed arch, with iron rebar protruding from its surface. The ruins are located in the Upper Bavarian district of Mühldorf. Via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-w5h7a monthly 0.5 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/186d9d8b-cf69-4635-90a1-1498deb6455e/1280px-Barbed_wire_near_by_the_entrance_of_Auschwitz_I.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 1 Near the entrance of Auschwitz. Via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/6b181230-8208-44ab-9d1c-b6634ed1b0db/Selection_on_the_ramp_at_Auschwitz-Birkenau%2C_summer_1944_%28Auschwitz_Album%29.jpg Stories - Ted Sears Memoir, part 1 - Make it stand out Selection at the train platform at Auschwitz, from Yad Vashem, Wikimedia Commons. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-gyea7 monthly 0.5 2025-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1742071100663-A1EK48FP02D7M638J98E/Bialis+video.jpg Stories - Sara Tenenberg Citizenship papers for Katia Merkin, wife of Halborn descendant Roman Freulich. https://www.halborns.net/stories/broiled-salmon-with-spring-onion-risotto-73c3s monthly 0.5 2025-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/53171db8-3540-4809-8069-623a775c8cbd/1940-Letter_1200.jpg Stories - A Man of Conscience - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736560749801-FAT39A2WBGA8OHDJLOPS/Zalma+mug+shot.jpg Stories - A Man of Conscience Photographs of Zalma Tenenberg taken by the SS in 1941. From Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/d4f1df1b-fb16-4816-a487-5b6591a7cf28/1894-Tenenberg_Zalma_B_1894_1200.jpg Stories - A Man of Conscience - Make it stand out Birth Record of Zalma Tenenberg. The record, written in Cyrillic, lists his date of birth as September 22, 1894 in Częstochowa, father Mosziek Lejb Tenenberg, age 33; mother Chaszka Tenenberg nee Halborn, age 33. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/91156381-36f9-436f-8e66-bbd2d206e072/potato+purchase-1.jpg Stories - A Man of Conscience - Make it stand out Tenenberg's November 28, 1940 communication to the Jewish self help organization in Kraków. Tenenberg states that, while the Polish community had received authorization to buy potatoes for the Polish population, no such authorization had been issued for the Jewish population. He goes on to state that, even if food was available, the Jewish community had already been stripped of cash enough to purchase it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/c706472e-9eee-4c5c-9143-f8e98fe9756a/Bund+Piotrkow+memorial+headstone.jpg Stories - A Man of Conscience - Make it stand out Memorial headstone in the Piotrków Trybunaski Jewish Cemetery. The headstone is dedicated to Jewish Bund members who took part in the resistance during World War II. Zalma Tenenberg's name is the second in the left hand column of the bottom photograph. The photos were taken from Gidonim.com, and are reproduced here courtesy of the Gidonim project, which every year sends graduates and teachers from the Re'ut School in Jerusalem to renovate Jewish cemeteries in Poland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/53a603f6-fdf0-407a-9dd2-9f91e1d6b8ba/1934-Z-Tenenberg-as-town-councillor-comp_1200.jpg Stories - A Man of Conscience - Make it stand out Zalma Tenenberg’s name appears on this page of this list of men running for office as members of the Piotrków Town Council in 1934. His address is listed, as is his profession and the abbreviation indicating his religion: “mojz.”, meaning “the religion of Moses”. The last column indicates that Tenenberg was elected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/6db0c97e-2987-471d-bd03-13a51772d7a0/Plaque_to_ghetto_in_Piotrko%CC%81w_Trybunalski%2C_Rynek_Trybunalski-3.jpg Stories - A Man of Conscience - Make it stand out Memorial plaque on the site of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto, the first ghetto ordered by the Germans in occupied Poland. https://www.halborns.net/stories/asian-pear-apple-pie-p3xgs-wr4mh-743j6 monthly 0.5 2025-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739054934297-BUXFXPPZUZAO1V9NH0A9/1992+Baltic+%26+Austria+039.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary 1992. The view from our Salzburg hotel room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739054950087-IVO8RYHKH6K6ZXPA9OMK/1992+Mary+Paul+Jerzy+Norm+Joan+Salzburn.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Having dinner at our hotel: Mary, Joan, Norm, Jerzy and Paul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/85ce70ac-4657-4683-bfa4-9bcc3172b428/1974+Cristina+Seidler+in+Gdansk+yard.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary - Make it stand out 1974. Christina Seidler picking strawberries in the garden of the Gdansk home the Seidler's were building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055801950-3UVP1T2XSD262LFEUIQI/1996+Carin+and+Maria+Forest+Knolls.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055808589-YWT65N6SB4U1T5A4LSVU/1996+Family+SF021.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/584264b9-5aea-47c4-b35d-4e8b83b41609/1995+Norm+Joan.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary - Make it stand out 1995. Norm and Joan on the front steps at our Lake Street home in San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/d9ea1f26-d113-499f-aea9-9df85ae6b337/1989+Mary+in+Hawaii+006.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739056142416-1HMCNZALCWZRSAA8G8P5/2010+Krakow+Jerzy+and+Norm+2.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary 2010, Krakow. Jerzy and Norm walk near the Krakow main square, taking up their decades long series of conversations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739056148419-30C42GL738SL17DX0S8U/2010+Krakow+Mary+and+Joan.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary 2010, Krakow. Mary and Joan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055942687-WFCK8OIKH0K1T7CL1TLC/1996+Yosemite+Dec+036.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary 1996. Mary, Carin Luke, a visiting child, Katherine and Rob in the lounge at the Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055965774-JEJU3O6JKSGIMVQK0KLP/1996+Luke+Mary+Yosemite+Dec+038.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Mary and Luke playing chess at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite a day before New Year's Eve, 1996. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055973125-XKMDH3X7Q1VNRBKC7S1D/1996+Glenda+Carin+Mary+Yosemite+Dec+041.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary 1996 in Yosemite: New Year's Eve with our cousin, Glenda Derman, Carin, and Mary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055985761-K7DPHL9WU6SOGMPPMD4W/1996+Yosemite+Maria+Joan++Dec+048.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary December, 1996. Mary and Joan in a barely snow covered Yosemite forest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055189006-HKHKJVP6LHXJQAYR6G75/1992+Jerzy+Mary+Norm+Salzburg+.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Jerzy, Mary and Norm above Salzburg, 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055202799-4RPQJ4ZBSMXOQ4YD8KH2/1992+Maria+Joan+Salzburg.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Mary and Joan above Salzburg, 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055235061-3Y4ULRGSP4K3YZP0WOD1/1992+Jerzy+and+Joan+near+Salzburg.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Jerzy was kind enough to lend me his warm jacket when I became chilled on our trip overlooking Salzburg in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055242071-2ON9CV7BUMP8JUODQ6PY/1992+Baltic+%26+Austria+034.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Enjoying the view, 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055437015-AB3P7T71X0FRXWEXWYIV/1991+Family+Luke+Mary.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055441991-KH4GAIO85MFLWSWGSRQC/1991+Family+Maria+and+Luke+Marin+029.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739055432290-QGOT12952J2V9KJ27QOU/1991+Family+031.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739051987711-ZH1CEO23ZDLRNEKX0W8G/1992+Mary+Norm+Jerzy+above+Salsburg.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Norm Abramson, Jerzy Seidler and Mary Seidler enjoy the view on a walk above Salzburg, Austria in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/a7bc42e0-0857-4b44-875d-5a2121748d8c/1974+Paul+Gdansk+1974.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary - Make it stand out 1974: Paul Seidler in Gdansk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739053551708-LAUTX77Y8EOVMM88LM3S/1974+Norm+and+Paul+Gdansk.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Norm and Paul at a lookout over Gdansk harbor, in 1974. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739053570555-P3WSHNUOLDD6X0VUXUXY/1974+Norm+Paul+and+Christina+Gdansk+copy.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Norm, Paul, and Christina at the Gdansk seaside. Norm is showing Paul his Polaroid camera – the latest thing in the 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739053594185-3FFF5TEXAMCE5RJVNGI9/1974+Jerzy+and+Norm+Gdansk.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Norm, Jerzy and the Seidler family dog at the beach in Gdansk, 1974. Jerzy and Norm, as usual, ended up having a long discussion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739053604125-1YLZLND04Z2AM0IZIO2W/1974+Norm+and+Jerzy+Gdansk.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Norm and Jerzy on a country trail near Gdansk, 1974. The discussion, as usual throughout their friendship, continued at great length. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739054486567-7HTZ6SNDAHPMIKAHVG05/1989+Marin+008.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Baby Luke, our daughter Carin, and Mary, at Carin's home in Forest Knolls, Marin County, 1989. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739054503516-VHHX5W50QEOV55OLHVYO/1989+Norm+%26+Mary+orest+Knolls.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Norm and Mary on the deck at our daughter, Carin's home in Marin, 1989. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739054518966-SLRCJJDSZ98EAWNZDQ4Q/1989+Marin+011.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary 1989. Norm, Rob Wethington (Carin's husband) and Mary on the deck of Carin's Forest Knolls home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1739054536200-QETW1XBTYR4CKOXWEFB8/1989+Marin+Maria+Muir+Woods.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary Another picture of Mary in 1989. I took the photo in Muir Woods, the beautiful redwood state park in Marin County, near Carin's home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/bcda771a-cce9-440a-9170-4d46740bb6e7/1968+Hawaii.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary - Make it stand out A 1968 photo taken on the Big Island of Hawaii on a day without volcanic activity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/c7c9dd5f-ffd1-448f-beb2-a9e346bb5afb/2010+Krakow+Jerzy+and+Norm.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary - Make it stand out Krakow, 2010. The conversation continues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/78511092-131a-4f7a-b220-790b8fa68d9b/1974+Carin+Copenhagen+1974.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary - Make it stand out Carin in Copenhagen, August, 1974. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/000b8445-e2c1-4b86-8107-7cf48cfc41df/1983++Mary+and+Jerzy+095+copy.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/c3b51920-b6e6-4b58-9566-91304454f2cc/1986+Mary+Honolulu.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/6e636571-d347-4cc2-8d9a-8a72cfa50471/1994+family+Mary+to+Sausilito+033.jpg Stories - Memories – for Mary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.halborns.net/stories/asian-pear-apple-pie-p3xgs monthly 0.5 2025-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736649722117-2YRZEXLF6QMHA594LHT0/Hasag-Pelcery+plaque Stories - Introducing the Tenenbergs This memorial commemorates the thousands of murdered slave laborers at Hasag-Pelecy in Częstochowa. (from Wikimedia Commons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/0b4f8e7a-21e7-438d-9171-a36da7b53c27/Hasag-B40908.jpg Stories - Introducing the Tenenbergs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/a8e869b8-6eee-43ea-8a41-67f847538635/Hasag_camp_Cze%CC%A8stochowa_Ghetto-c.jpg Stories - Introducing the Tenenbergs - Make it stand out Forced labour camp for Jews established by the Hasag (Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft) company in Częstochowa (from Wikimedia Commons). https://www.halborns.net/stories/cucumber-tomato-salad-jlafp monthly 0.5 2025-03-16 https://www.halborns.net/stories/asian-pear-apple-pie-p3xgs-wr4mh monthly 0.5 2025-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/4a285f97-ac9f-431e-aa6d-ca1a5f709ec0/PHOTO+TWO+Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_-_IPN29.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto - Make it stand out Forced labour camp for Jews established by the Hasag (Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft) company in Częstochowa (from Wikimedia Commons). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/619150e0-9f23-4f95-a17b-e44d1cf2a57c/PHOTO+SEVENGil+Dnial+Shiff%2C+Leon+Najberg%2C+Michaela+Majberg+Schiff+2008.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto - Make it stand out Leon Najberg with three generations of descendants, in Israel, 2009, shortly before his death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/c79637f9-2238-462a-bee2-83da2d2b2fcb/PHOTO+ONE1600px-Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_06b.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto This memorial commemorates the thousands of murdered slave laborers at Hasag-Pelecy in Częstochowa. (from Wikimedia Commons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/3a31aebe-8217-4e8a-992b-9244d73c824a/PHOTO+THREE+najberg+copy.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto - Make it stand out Leon Najberg, photographed after the Shoah. Najberg was just 17 years old during the uprising and just 18 in September 1943, when he was one of the last fighters to escape from the ghetto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736820270334-WMHQK7STOZ97L1GHJZB5/PHOTO+FOUR+49+Leszno+after+war+by+Stefan+Weinfeld.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto The building at 49 Leszno Street photographed in 1946 by Roman Weinfeld's father, Stefan Weinfeld. He wrote on the back of the photo: "The building on Leszno Street 49 where my father was working." (see Chapter 12 of The Halborns: Ancestors - Immigrants - Survivors). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736801982876-SO6LZE8O042SDNPWVV8Y/PHOTO+FIVE+Warsaw+Leszno+st+after+war+by+Stefan+Weinfeld.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto An overview of part of the Warsaw ghetto in a photograph taken by Stefan Weinfeld in 1946. On the back of the photo Weinfeld wrote: "On this place were standing large five story buildings of the Muranów district of Warsaw." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736802409066-6WTKAIS5VGV9PSTZJLG2/Stroop_Report_-_Cover_Page+copy.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736802409444-230XPT6Y4BEA1C4046OO/Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_-_IPN35.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736802410249-S78KXBCDP3NMY99DH5FV/Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_-_IPN42.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736802410597-8UEQYUW00DQL14JP0CTT/Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_-_NARA25.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736802411571-4BFS43DX8OG48L74O5U6/Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_11-1.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736802411958-RBK6L1ECKKGTT8WSEJ4I/Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_12.jpg Stories - Last Insurgents of the Ghetto https://www.halborns.net/stories/apple-waffles-hxj3j monthly 0.5 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736647894594-Y7WCGKK17OFD3OV4173H/IMG_0721.JPG Stories - Częstochowa Gateway to the Częstochowa Jewish cemetery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736647980278-MV7Q9YJQKUM0QQ9TVLYJ/IMG_0723.JPG Stories - Częstochowa Main path leading through the Częstochowa Jewish cemetery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736648082176-N2O2S5BHOVI9V7FGFI2W/IMG_0729.JPG Stories - Częstochowa Vandalized grave marker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736648140054-4W8JKRPXPLU1U8LAMRAH/IMG_0728.JPG Stories - Częstochowa Vandalized and neglected grave markers in the Częstochowa Jewish cemetery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736648261870-20J9BW9V0589HC0XNOWM/Jacob+halborn+headstone.jpg Stories - Częstochowa The only remaining Halborn family headstone in the Jewish cemetery is that of Jacob Halborn, third son of Chaskiel Halborn. Jacob died in 1910 at the age of 34. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736648345174-YVX6SDHAIT8KK02XAJUK/IMG_0708.JPG Stories - Częstochowa The two mass grave sites at the Ghetto Memorial in Częstochowa are locked. They are separated by an open grassy area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736648410400-NBDBY1O4KQT6Y351DBSS/IMG_0714.jpg Stories - Częstochowa 21 Kawia Street. The building is directly across the street from the memorial to ghetto jews. Finding this address is the best way to locate the memorial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736648501220-ZF8OBT7LDXQ688R7E4XF/IMG_0710+2.JPG Stories - Częstochowa The small shop on Kawia Street where the keys to the memorial site are kept. The shop is on the same side of the street as 21 Kawia on the other side of an empty lot that may have once been a passageway through which Nazis ordered victims to be carried to the mass graves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736648560968-77K0MJ14EQ1KSZANXNAD/IMG_0716.jpg Stories - Częstochowa Shopkeeper walking with keys toward the second of two locked Kawia Street memorial sites. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736648657881-AV7INKP3UCLJZLK1ZYNU/IMG_0695.JPG Stories - Częstochowa The small memorial grave marker reads: “In memory of the Jewish victims of Nazism, September 22, 1942.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736648735283-I0X17DBDK7WBYB95H3HV/IMG_0701.JPG Stories - Częstochowa Roman Weinfeld and Norman Abramson inside one of the two mass grave areas where hundreds of ghetto Jews were buried. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736648806472-K9N5IOKRM9LYD426Q1GO/IMG_0704.JPG Stories - Częstochowa The memorial grave marker in the second enclosure contains an almost identical inscription as the marker in the first enclosure: “In memory of the Jewish victims of Nazism, September 22, 1942.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1736647081168-WIYBMMZAS7LS1A58XNSZ/IMG_0689.JPG Stories - Częstochowa The view from our car as we drove into Częstochowa, Poland, 2010. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-cckf9 monthly 0.5 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741219670258-EPTJHC243QQLFLLSQB89/1933+Jack+Helen+%28Jack%27s+wife%29+Judy+Katia+Joan+Roman.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Jack Freulich, Helene Spinak Freulich, Katia Merkin Freulich and Roman Freulich – all immigrants – in Los Angeles in 1932. Helene holds Roman and Katia's oldest child, Judy, Katia holds youngest child, Joan. Jack and Helene's son Henry is missing from the photo. All three Freulich children -- Henry, Judy and Joan -- were born in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220125087-3JNSE7ZWIV5FZFW4H8OI/1905+Isaac+and+Jack+Freulich.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Isaac and Jack Freulich from Czestochowa, Poland, photographed in about 1905. Jack arrived in about 1900 Isaac settled in the United States in 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220123064-MFRUX7X4IXTBEL7WLYR7/Abe+1943-4+001.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Abe Riskin in 1942. Abe immigrated from Russia in the early 1900s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220124543-LPKJH0UC8CISIANF0OP6/Abramson_S+family+late+1923+immig+1907.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Rachel Braverman Abramson and Shimsel (Samuel) Abramson with their six children. Both Shimsel and Rachel immigrated from Altus, Lithuania in 1907. Their children are all native born Americans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220125654-LE5DGLXPDJ335X7XDFQM/Abramsons+1945+002.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Seated left to right: Eddie Abramson who immigrated from Alytus, Lithuania in 1922, Fred Glazer who immigrated from Polotosk, Russia in 1913, Sophie Vaslavsky Glazer, who immigrated from Odessa, Ukraine in 1913, Joseph Derman who immigrated from Russia in about 1910, Bertha Vaskavsky Derman, who immigrated from Odessa, Ukraine in 1923, Esther Vasklavsky Abramson, who immigrated from Odessa, Ukraine in 1923. The seated adults were immigrants. Their children, all pictured here, were born in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220126981-E500L0JY4HQIR2JNAEID/Anita+Merkin+Switkes+and+Miriam+Mirkin+Bernstein+1913.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Anita Merkin Switkes and Miriam Merkin Bernstein immigrated from Orsha, Belarus in 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220127512-V2Q5E2MO65SQUAGE5PH8/Arenstein.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Wolf Arenstein, Helen Spinak Freulich's brother, with his two sons, Charles and Michael, in front of their home in Otwock, Poland in the 1930s. All three immigrated to the United States, along with Maria Arenstein, in 1942, after escaping from Nazi occupied Poland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220129050-FK8M1687B7Q0EQ5CYRHR/Eddie+and+Esther%2C+1929.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Esther Vaslavsky Abramson and Edward Abramson married in 1929. Esther immigrated from Odessa, Ukraine in 1923. Edward immigrated from Alytus, Lithuania in 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220128969-RY1SPOPFJ90GD4HPMHSE/Estera+and+Rozalia+Halborn+1941.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Rosalia Halborn and Estera Halborn, daughter and wife of Hirsh Halborn, immigrated to the United States from Sophia, Bulgaria, where they had been living at the start of the Holocaust. They entered the United States in 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220130659-QVO2KMU5LDJJV9LYQWIR/Fred+Glazer+1913.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Fred Glazer, standing in this picture with his family before he immigrated from Polotosk, Russia in 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220130754-C6ATK162A7OBS4ALVC83/Harriy+1911+Rachel+Shimsel+1907.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Yrmil (Harry) Abramson, immigrated from Alytus, Lithuania in 1911. His brother Shimsel and sister-in-law, Rachel Braverman Abramson, immigrated in 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220132099-JN8WJ9ZSWT89W986OFK2/Hershey+Bernice+Family++005.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Joseph Derman, standing at the right side of the photo, immigrated from Russia to the United States in about 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220132562-276A3HYJKYNSHYX62Q5W/Isaac+Freulich+1902.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Isaac Freulich photographed by his son Jack in about 1918. Isaac first came to America from Czestochowa, Poland in 1902 and settled permanently in 1913. Four of his six children immigrated to America. He had five American born grandchildren and numerous American born great grandchildren. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220134560-IW8ZD12UYORX7617TNYX/Joseph+Smolovitz+with+wife%2C+children+.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Joseph Smalowitz immigrated from Utena, Lithuania in 1903. His wife, Minna (Mamie) Matskevitch Smalowitz immigrated from Alytus, Lithuania in 1907. The four children were born in American. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220135170-8CYEIJ6Y6BJCTE8JQEIH/Katherine+%26+Uncle+Henry004.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Katia Merkin Freulich with brother-in-law Hersz (Henry) Freulich in St. Louis in 1924. Henry immigrated from Czestochowa, Poland in 1903. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220135873-9IBNQK7SPKQQYBPQWEGR/Katia+Ida+Rebecca+021.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Katia Merkin Freulich, Ida Merkin Riskin and older sister Rebecca. Rebecca lost her husband and family in the Holocaust and was located and brought to the United States in the late 1940s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220136927-TK8ZW6889SVIVWP43XJ5/Katia%26Ida+about+1913+pos001.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Katia Merkin Freulich, standing, and Ida Merkin Riskin immigrated from Orsha, Belarus to the United States in 1912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220136951-U76C2479WEU1RDA96Q4V/Leon+Frydman+4.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Leon Frydman, 1946. Leon entered the United States after World War Two, after surviving internment in Auschwitz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220138489-USTZ4TFUK2INXS4IJIDL/Maria+Arenstein.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Maria Arenstein in America decades after immigrating from Otwock, Poland in 1941 with her husband and two sons. They escaped Nazi occupied Poland in 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220140320-CAH7TZBEGN4BXQUVUJGQ/Max+and+Anna.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Anna and Max Abramson. Max immigrated in 1927 from Alytus, Lithuania. Anna probably immigrated before World War One. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220140409-0T2L2IMXK575JFWWNKIU/Paulina+Freulich+Carpovitch+1913.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Paulina Freulich Carpovitch immigrated from Czestochowa, Poland in 1913. Paulina and her husband had two American born daughters, six grandchildren and many great grandchildren. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220142574-LDV24I5HVFCRLL6BKBMG/Ray+Merkin+1.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Ray Michanovsky Merkin immigrated from Russia in the early 1900s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220142360-RE0EUNS97K2TXHKW6O3H/Roman+Freulich+1918.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Roman Freulich in British Army Jewish battalion uniform during World War One. Roman immigrated to the United States in 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220143668-FX98RX2TFWAZMJ5FD4PD/Roman+Katia+Helen+20s+022.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Immigrants Roman Freulich and Katia Merkin Freulich with Helene Spinak Freulich in California, early 1920s. Helene immigrated from Warsaw, Poland in 1903. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220145246-J9V36LUTDYH2WFLWASSC/Sam+Merkin+1905.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Shmuel (Samuel) Merkin immigrated from Orsha, Belarus in 1905. His two sons, and a third son born after this photo was taken, were born in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220144899-RLSYPBADFBH5JQLWMT3T/Victor+Carpovitch.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Victor Carpovitch. Immigrated from Grosno, Russia during the early 1900s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220146878-SQS01INACMM41CGWE4TT/Zipa+%28Celia%29+with+daughters+in+1932+1913.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Zipa Merkin, with Miriam Merkin Bernstein and Katia Merkin Freulich, in California in 1932. Zipa immigrated from Orsha, Belarus with her two youngest daughters in 1913. Katia immigrated in 1912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741220369207-MRVVR3XS5G910S39NO03/Louis+with+Cello.jpg Stories - Our American Immigrants Louis Bernstein immigrated from Russia in the early 1900s. https://www.halborns.net/stories/leaving-orsha-lmhzy monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741646187584-JLXMR5KT7B1F7WOS2GOP/probably+1930.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Jack with his mother, two sisters,nephew and son In the courtyard of his mother's apartment building in Łódź, Poland. Early spring, 1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741646195367-2YL8V53R5QWER7KIIHPR/1928+Lodz+Jack+Nisla+Henry.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Jack Freulich, Henry Freulich and Nisla Freulich, Jack's mother and Henry's grandmother, in a park one block from Nisla Freulich's apartment in Łódź, Poland. Early spring,1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/f01e2a1d-9526-4e36-945f-5d45cf3e5301/JACK+Freulich+signature+Karloff.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer - Make it stand out Portrait of Boris Karloff by Jack Freulich, auctioned as the work of Roman Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741645476111-TAN0VP86JZ6FN1G6M505/Bette+Davis+1931.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Bette Davis. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741645395859-25DEDW05LXD6ENF1HSZI/Davis_Bette_247_O_Jack_Freulich_1931-1.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Bette Davis. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741645397425-7QHXRTQZPBC8QNLDS87X/Fay+Wray+20s.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Faye Wray. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741645400530-SKA8F9MXJZU0AAN0LO4F/Ginger+Rogers%2C+Modern+Screen%2C+Feb-Oct+1933+copy.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Ginger Rogers. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741645403063-RTDAYA8715IO76WJPYCE/Harriet_Hoctor_1935.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Harriet Hoctor. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741645404780-M891SW706A2ZLXFXS16Z/Margaret+Sullivan.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Margaret Sullivan. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741645405691-FAENWGV08R3I9BB4UD7A/Mary+Nolan+1929+copy.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Mary Nolan. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741645611832-U0XGO903XI0H8ZPTDAAE/Bette+Davis+late+1920s+by+Jack.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Bette Davis. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/4163ad20-ae3c-4eb0-a2de-ce5ee72d425a/Paderewski+Jack+copy.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer - Make it stand out Jack Freulich pictured in the 1920s with Universal Studio executives and Polish pianist and independence advocate Ignacy Paderewski, on a visit Paderewski made to the Universal lot in San Fernando Valley, probably in the late 1920s. Jack stands in the center back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741644558429-K416ZHRBVX6H9VHE6GGL/Anna+May+Wong+by+Jack.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Anna May Wong. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741644558575-NTNFMERMMKEUCSD6KLY1/Fay+Wray+Jack.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Fay Wray. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741644559518-EBI3DG54LVIRQYX6QFWS/Fay+Wray+King+Kong+ebay.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Fay Wray. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741644559715-OY8KQ416WJTQ5EBX3WY9/Gladys+Walton.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Gladys Walton. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741644560834-JKI1G3QUJ6N3A44DN9FF/Hoot-Gibson_1200.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Hoot Gibson. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741644561036-R7HA4HMZPQLCVG7T6V2I/Jane+Winton.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Jane Winton. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741644561783-2YTURCLDFV7JTN27QH34/Lon+Chaney.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Lon Chaney. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741644561970-L6Y5ZQU500J0TRP8707P/Marion+Nixon+2+by+Jack.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Marion Nixon. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741644562852-CVE7OGCFIB8DVMHG6KS7/Mary+Philbin+tmblr+2.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Mary Philbin. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741644563041-G0RZYB08QNRZV3WS0FES/Shannon-Day_1200.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Shannon Day. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741644564041-K92UEE1L8MLUS3H0XGZS/Winifred+Bryson.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Winifred Bryson. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741644902600-9ZCXBZPHYPQXABBPRLGJ/Grace+Diamond.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Grace Diamond. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741641838826-EV5XNR6HFYGQ1UP21VAH/Conrad+Veidt+20s062.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Conrad Veidt, as Lord Clancharlie in The Man Who Laughs, 1928. Photo by Roman Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741641952832-1SYQC4IRP0IHLRUX3BWP/Conrad+Veidt+1928.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Conrad Veidt as Lord Clancharlie's son, Gwynplaine, who has been physically mutilated as a child to please a vengeful king, in The Man Who Laughs, 1928. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/7a56a337-2e2d-481e-95ae-45eac3fb930f/1906-19+Jack+%26+Isaac+011.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer - Make it stand out Isaac Freulich with his son Jack, about 1906. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741640633831-OHFVVGGRUB2MKMVL0Z25/1924-25-LA-from-pos-020-e1465150882129_800.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Jack and Helene Freulich, Katia and Roman Freulich, in the backyard of Jack's new home on Odin Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741640633884-34B4OJJCPV1ISOUH540D/Jack+%26+Helen+early+20s+116.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Jack and Helene Freulich in a park near their new home in Los Angeles. Early 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741640338664-CT2RGMRNQV0JNJCQMLVP/sin-theda-bara-1915-everett_800.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741640338914-08CBZ0243SRMPD3EXJZS/Theda_Bara_in_Sin-1915-Wikimedia-commons_800.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741640339532-KHM2RJ7D9WKW6TN9KTH6/Theda-Bara-1910s-Underwood_800.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741640339749-1SHLW5Q90752VS88CAFT/Theda-Bara-raven-Sin_800.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741639650621-NK5RA5CNA7R98FFY2MZO/Jack+1926++005.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer - Make it stand out Jack Freulich, in a photograph given to his brother and sister-in-law, Roman and Katia Freulich, in 1926. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741640978825-VZCW3PFJUAWCXD9NUDX0/Mary-Philbin-by-Jack-4_800.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Mary Philbin. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741640990759-DXQ5T9V7FNIIYP3HM3R2/Francis-X-Bushman-005_800.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Francis X Bushman. Photo by Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741641647597-CVZ6KBZ1AIPC5CUO3UIP/Provenance-Karloff_1200.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Letter of Provenance guaranteeing that the Karloff photograph above is the work of Roman Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741641657679-AWMUWL0YCD45VYSYK5L7/Freulich-signature-4_1200.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Proof of authenticity offered for Karloff portrait. It is the signature of Jack Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/599eb50d-7041-4f68-96c8-169da2ed484d/Jack+1930s+.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer - Make it stand out Jack Freulich in his portrait studio at Universal Studios, 1930s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741646019415-OTPJFC3JZ1M1N2ZVGI9B/1928+from+pos++007.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer Jack Freulich and his mother, Nisla Mirla Halborn, in 1928. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741646029859-02MTA7OHV6R5AD4XBH3G/Back+of+1928+JackNisla002.jpg Stories - Jack Freulich, pioneer The back of the photo of Jack Freulich and his mother, Nisla Mirla Halborn, in 1928. https://www.halborns.net/stories/bloody-maria-cocktails-kxc3s-ynjl2 monthly 0.5 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/12b9cc13-2977-497b-b62b-90b2b202a3f9/Roman+mid+1930s.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Roman during the 1930s when he wrote and directed two avant-garde films. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/fc1ea657-adca-4bd1-aae0-3cb324bc96a0/Roman+Freulich+1968.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Roman in Israel, 1968. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745275768-50GWSZ0J7U9D7N3J8SY2/RF+New+York+38+122.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Atlas, at Rockefeller Center, with St. Patricks Cathedral in background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745274887-BEP3YIRLETSBMIV6J693/RF+New+York+38+121.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, NYC, photographed from Rockefeller Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745276129-C9FZP8HYX08MD1XS8EXJ/RF+New+York+38+126.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator New York skyline, taken with a Leica camera by Roman Freulich on his departure for Poland in 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745866718-FNG2J2R5RQAEYM8XY1V4/RF+scenic+London+38+051.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Changing of the guard, Buckingham Palace, London, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745273876-NQYJO8LP8N9F3D1BZBFN/RF+London+38+131.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Changing of the guard, Buckingham Palace, London, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745272340-U30HFZZA3VAUO2GN6RT2/London+1938++001.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Thames River and Victoria Embankment from the embankment below Westminster Bridge, London, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745277437-11I4JZ5J2EIVMTYVCL66/RF+scenic+London+38+070.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Milk delivery handcart on a London street in 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745581738-T7AOAJ0ATI8QLCB7LJVJ/RF%2BLondon%2B38%2B106.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Big Ben and Parliament from Westminster Bridge, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745274658-K9QJ5IFZWJJHI9PGL5BJ/RF+London+38+147.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Big Ben, and Parliament Building from embankment below Westminster Bridge, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745279354-AUJ175PWWE7O8XJ4S7TY/RF+Warsaw-Lodz+38+194_2.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Hala Mirowska, a shopping complex in Warsaw in 1938. the building remains largely unchanged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745280918-YKOV7D7K9GTDM4HOM6XA/St+Anna+Church+warsaw.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator St. Anna Church near the Royal Castle in Warsaw, 1938. The site was destroyed during the war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745285312-1784AM5IEO89X2IQTSNT/Warsaw++Szfinx+1938-9002+%282%29.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Szfinx Theater, Warsaw, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745266890-I733IBHW5NDRLB58F6FE/Lodz+1938+008.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Open Market in Łódź, Poland, winter, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745270111-5Y8I6CTBDRRM6EBJVTAH/1938+open+market+in+Lodz+-Apple+Annie-.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Apple seller in outdoor market, Łódź, Poland, 1938. A favorite photo of Roman’s - he called it "Apple Annie." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745269970-AJ4UHE56486LOKQPOBJ2/Lodz+1938+029.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Relatives standing in Warsaw Old Town Market Square, 1938. The Old Town was completely destroyed during the war and has been reconstructed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745272290-SQJHSNL2M0IUJ2HGW3TA/Lodz+altshul+and+Rafal.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Roman's nephew, Rafal Jelen in front of Althshul synagogue on Wolbolska Street in Łódź. The Altshul was destroyed by the Germans less than a year later, in November, 1939. Rafael did not survive the war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/c706dad5-b5e3-4636-b9f3-e97b6b5eee1f/Lodz+family+1938+005.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Roman in Łódź in late February, 1938, just before leaving. His sister, Helena, his mother, Nisla Halborn Freulich, and nephew, Rafal, were all murdered in the Holocaust along with dozens of more distant relatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/75a9c2e2-893b-415c-95a2-98c966181b91/Roman+Awards+038.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Roman photographed in his portrait gallery at Republic Studio in 1946. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/a1d93cdb-3c21-41f9-a8d4-71aaf001b75d/About+1907-8+from+pos++002.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Paulina, Isaac and Roman Freulich in a photo taken in Częstochowa before the three immigrated to the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745072423-TQVPOT9GBJLQBUXE42HI/1937+Stokowski+copy+2.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Portrait of Leopold Stokowski. Winner of 1938 award for excellence in Leica photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741745070342-NGDPO82OGE3E0R3KDG7W/1938+Leica+award.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Leica award certificate, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/9906cd6f-d59d-4a0b-95bf-78d54ef58125/Roman_portfolio+Leica+1+copy.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out First two pages of a 1938 article advocating the use of small cameras on film production sets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/cd644fac-bbf6-47fe-a348-c03fd1e235ff/1965+Letter+1+Ben+Gurion+to+RF.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out 1965 letter from David Ben Gurion to Roman Freulich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/208d6e9d-f2ec-4d55-8354-d604ab61f5ce/Judy+Joan+Big+Pines+36+012.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out A Saturday afternoon at Big Pines. My sister and I waited for my father's arrival on the hill behind our camping site, 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/04237523-222f-4778-919d-fb50b3547e00/ad+for+-prisoner-004.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Poster for Prisoner, a short avant-garde film Roman wrote and directed in 1933. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742087554-Y1835LTW7H73TL4GY39H/1931+Bela+Lugosi+Dracul.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Bela Lugosi, Dracula, 1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742087653-ZFBW12DOPLZAX2L28CLM/1931+Dracula+2.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Dracula, 1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742088534-GV219WOSS8CG5AUJ1HTX/1931+Dracula.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Helen Chandler, Bela Lugosi, Dracula, 1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742094234-N71FRX55HUINA7K9IRZ7/1931+Frankenstein.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Dwight Frye, Colin Clive, in Frankenstein, 1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742090784-0T35BLR4B4S6VOHIFJLG/1931+Frankenstein+Karloff+%26+Colin+Clive.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Frankenstein, 1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742090569-7PVYYNK3E4Q5BKS65AUZ/1931+Frankenstein+2.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Boris Karloff, Frankenstein, 1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742105969-66FUCOECT3N276UF4WT8/Frankenstein+1.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Boris Karloff, Frankenstein, 1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742094668-RN8Y0TVB13F6QN5W2GUI/1932+The+old+Dark+House+3.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Gloria Stuart, The Old Dark House, 1932. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742096800-5UHNCXT5WL3ETM9VB0S0/1932+The+Old+Dark+House+4.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Boris Karloff, The Old Dark House, 1932. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742096356-FE27JZVDNBE1E6U5B35S/1933+The+InvisibleMan+2.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Claude Rains, Gloria Stewart, The Invisible Man, 1933. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742102468-GNS75ZKYGHY8U1ILW4C3/Black+Cat+Karloff.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Boris Karloff, The Black Cat, 1934. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742100817-LNWMGQ4YBOQYXWV17ZCO/Black+Cat+karloff+3.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Boris Karloff, The Black Cat, 1934. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742103838-GIF7BII16XXR2EVNFX68/Black+Cat+Lugosi.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Bela Lugosi, Julie Bishop, The Black Cat, 1934. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742100521-40DERH5SF9J3S7NPTMVO/1935+Bride+of+frankenstein+Lancaster+Karloff.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Elsa Lancaster, Boris Karloff, Bride of Frankenstein, 1935. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742098791-KAUHN84FXD95RHJ4AEZJ/1935-Bride-of-Frankenstein_1200.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Boris Karloff, Bride of Frankenstein, 1935. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741742105746-KQTUBRU68GOX7IPS8PMJ/Boris+Karloff+in+Bride+of+Frankenstein.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Boris Karloff, Bride of Frankenstein, 1935. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/bda1e6aa-692b-422e-9624-da5f111a7ead/1936+Internatl+photog+april%2C+pg+7.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out April 1936 International Photographer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/92c769d2-a408-49e6-b99e-4b04e071fd8c/Family+1932++++119.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Garden of our home with my aunt Miriam Bernstein, uncle Louis Bernstein, grandmother Merkin, mother Katia Freulich, and cousin Eunice Bernstein, in 1932 before I was born. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/ca48e593-e2d3-473d-8296-0e7f8d28e643/Broken+earth+1939+ad.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Broken Earth 1939 advertisement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741739433125-UF1X2QOVB1PGWHG7HOSS/RF+early+50s++087.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Roman at his studio in the early 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741747939937-RC5XBZ4XFF9RE25OJSPZ/RF+Israel+1968+172.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741747938894-TL8EPWM0NUF17ISB8D2O/Faces+of+Israel+079.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741747941058-RO8C8840UOKL7R7QC0RW/Faces+of+Israel+080.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741747942134-JP7I9XJH1QWLURP8J6RM/Faces+of+Israel+081.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741747942927-PGQBURIAXAS6TZPXU9IP/Faces+of+Israel+107.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741747944915-ZA1VQ06AL3DE69BYF0J2/Faces+of+Israel+110a.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741747945083-0R2D8QCVD36LV5BL9VF9/RF+Israel+1968+097.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741747950043-WI1323V43VOVX2GNA62H/RF+Israel+1968+141+copy+2.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746758577-PEEFT5ZO8F37NPSAHW7E/1940s+Arthur+Rubenstein+059.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Arthur Rubenstein, 1940s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746762064-BDQRT1362RNUWGQXVFRG/1940s-50s+John+Ford+at+Reputblic+016.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator John Ford, 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746762632-UV17RJI76VOF8UJMY6LV/1946+Spectre+of+the+Rose+008.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen, Spectre of the Rose, 1946. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746765103-SUQ72KS5SJPVS838QSTG/1948+Macbeth+Orson+Welles+pos+014.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Orson Wells, Macbeth, 1948. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746764497-CH6XU62Q25I8593V80ST/1949+Myrna+Loy+at+Republic+%28Red+Pony0+058.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Myrna Loy, 1949. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746767748-VM2XH85W13P52IS9UUUT/1949+She+Wore+a+Yellow+Ribbon+John+Wayne+008.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator John Wayne, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746767331-UDKKDTJWYT1VG072BRXP/1949+She+Wore+a+Yellow+Ribbon+John+Wayne.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator John Wayne, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746772865-J2YEDYU9C127VQFPJHXG/1949+She+Wore+a+Yellow+Ribon+John+Wayne+035.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator John Wayne, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746773995-OYDD3K94T2S0WJDTEZY3/1949+The+Red+Pony+Ethel+Barrymore+09.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Ethel Barrymore, The Red Pony, 1949. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746774413-J3QPTS3RCA59NEGSBHL0/1950s+Gloria+Swanson+052.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Gloria Swanson, 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746777582-K1P25EOK675P6GPE3KLT/1950s+Gloria+Swanson.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Gloria Swanson, 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746777819-7HHE01685YXLFEYEKBWU/1950s+Jane+Russell+2+001.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Jane Russell, 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746782606-BVNMZFKSK3K9JDX6RNWN/1950s+Rex+Ingram+at+Republic.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Rex Ingram, 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746782178-H7KO4L4YU2DHH93PSIX6/1950s+Roy+Rogers+attrib+to+Jack.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Roy Rogers, 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746790684-ZUM4ZHZANM3YUZ1SDFRG/1950s+Vera+Ralston+025.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Vera Ralston, 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746788731-46BE9IVI2LOIOLDRXL5O/1951+Honeychile+Judy+Canova+%26+Eddie+Foy004.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Eddie Foy Jr., Judy Canova, Honeychile, 1951. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746797244-TKBD9B5JS7O4DDRC3Q50/1952+James+Mason.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator James Mason. 1952. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746801052-GT5A6YIZD4KEA4Z8627E/1954+Joan+Crawford+Johnny+Guitar++024.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Joan Crawford, Johnny Guitar, 1954. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746801954-BW65LPOALES8KEGFW8QP/1958+I+Want+to+Live+Susan+Hayward.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Susan Hayward, I Want to Live, 1958. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741746803687-8ZPMD8SRQEO9NMR19GSD/1960+John+Wayne+The+Alamo+3.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator John Wayne, The Alamo, 1960. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1877ac9d-4f29-4489-bdcf-6ec1cbc8f5e0/Roman+%26+Jack+1920+002.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Roman and Jack Freulich, 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741741125764-CE504EV78NQ5GQJ9JC3U/Roman040.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Roman Freulich, during a cross-country hitchhiking trip from New York to Los Angeles, with his new bride, Katia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741741125990-WV0OQIUDGJNS5BH6KC4P/Katherine042.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Katia Merkin Freulich, during a cross-country hitchhiking trip from New York to Los Angeles, with her new husband, Roman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743018989-S6XIHESNBBUXU60G49I3/Abbott+%26+Costello+010.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Lou Costello and Bud Abbott, 1940s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743023297-J58MEYI5BIZ9TOC3PJWN/1931+All+Quiet++Lew+Ayers.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Lew Ayers, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743022915-X5A3ZDX00R54FN29KMLO/1931+All+Quiet+4.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator All Quiet on the Western Front, 1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743024544-428DI3ALSR43S9Q6BNYE/1931+East+of+Borneo+Rose+Hobart+019.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Rose Hobart, East of Borneo, 1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743026859-33RA52CI1NUX2I2JG8OD/1936+My+Man+Godfrey.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Carole Lombard, William Powell, My Man Godfrey, 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743026623-3NQ2PYCYKJTMCJI71MOT/1936+Showboat+++003.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Irene Dunne, Showboat, 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743031332-42521WYFM0OSAVGU6EOH/1936+Showboat004.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Paul Robeson, Hattie McDaniel, Showboat, 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743030776-RQPXOK5CG58NDS96HCOY/1936+Three-Smart-Girls-1.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Barbara Reed, Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, Three Smart Girls, 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743032079-I7FD8K97R8RGNCU7J83H/1937+100+Men+4.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Adolph Menjou, Leopold Stokowski, Misch Auer, One Hundred Men and a Girl, 1937. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743033628-KB1X4GMU19DI407PHN6A/1937+100+Men.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Mischa Auer, Deanna Durbin, Adolph Menjou, One Hundred Men and a Girl, 1937. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743035252-401GLEA0QP222B1HWF49/1937%2C+The+Road+Back+2.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator John King, The Road Back, 1937. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743037940-L3MWGGQ6JUOIRCIV2MWQ/1938+The+Rage+of+Paris+001.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Mischa Auer, Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The Rage of Paris, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743042185-ASC93X6M9BCP9AK1IZWO/1938+The+Rage+of+Paris+Fairbanks+Jr+%26+Darrieux++02.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Danielle Darrieux, The Rage of Paris, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743044622-80001S6P5440F51TJSTK/1940+My+Little+Chicadee+WC+Fields+2.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator W.C. Fields, My Little Chickadee, 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743046848-IM1HNRQJAYM5B751SWQT/1940+My+Little+Chickadee+WC+Fields+Mae+West+.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Mae West and W.C. Fields, My Little Chickadee, 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743049097-ZQNEDR0GTRK1YEF42ZIP/1940s+Anne+Gwynne+018.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Anne Gwynne, 1940s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743052437-TC1PIUAZS49W26N4J8MP/1940s+Deanna+Durbin+034.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Deanna Durbin, 1940s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743053109-UAN7Z62JXV3KQ3OFYJRD/1940s+Deanna+Durbinat+Universal.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Deanna Durbin, 1940s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743057848-8B7OC4FLO7S2MSB5B08J/1940s+June+Vincent+017.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator June Vincent, 1940s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741743058672-8SP4YN632TRIH54S54AQ/1940s+Susanna+Foster+at+Universal.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Susanna Foster, 1940s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/8dd6c0af-4d51-4a7a-829f-a11d0938942a/1918+Roman+in+Palestine.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out My father, Roman Freulich -- son of Nisla Mirla Halborn -- in Palestine with 39th Battalion of Jewish Legion, 1918. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/e797b204-b988-4f0f-b4c7-37508d9fa987/Roman+and+Chaim+Lubel+1920s.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Roman and Chaim Lubell in Pasadena, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741741564302-5XKFRKMSA6AU0G5IHMY3/1927+Surrender+4.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Ivan Mozzhukhin and Mary Philbin in Surrender, 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741741563829-1SYPFU7802GETEYKHWIM/1927+Surrender+2.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Nigel De Brulier in Surrender, 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741741570815-BYH2GJQK48W0AQRQZBUF/1928+The+man+who+Laughs+2.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, The Man Who Laughs, 1928. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741741568978-PCOVZ9K5WEBWNRCOPKBB/1928+Foreign+Legion+1.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator The Foreign Legion, 1928. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741741569467-QCLLE7TINAPAGHQ78U1O/1928+Foreign+Legion+4.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Norman Kerry in The Foreign Legion, 1928. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741741580086-ONRGRG8P9I8SQMY90ZJH/1929+Showboat+5.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Stepin Fetchit, Tess Gardella and Jane La Verne in the 1929 production of Showboat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741741570564-UUL98CXET9Q67L7PJ4PX/1929+Showboat+1.JPG Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Joseph Schildkraut, Laura La Plante, Showboat, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741741578519-E8OYQDGOYP18TBFZAQB0/1929+Showboat+2.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Joseph Schildkraut, Laura La Plante, Showboat, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741741575630-IR1F7P1LUQ27B15VU67M/1929+Showboat+3.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Showboat, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/42808bc8-fdad-4e9e-bdbf-0841d3ca4bcb/1940+Deanna+Durbin+Spring+Parade+spead+in+Intl+photo+oct+1940+copy.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Deanna Durbin Spring Parade spread in International Photo magazine, October 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/0b392bfb-574a-4ed0-beba-26b913a6f1d7/Roman_portfolio_pinup+article.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out First two pages of an article written by Roman for a movie fan magazine about 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/3f6588a5-a7b3-46b5-a6cd-0620426abec0/1930s+autogr+Stokowski011.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out One of Roman’s photographs of Leopold Stokowski, taken with a Leica and autographed by the conductor “with happiest memories”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/5ed67d62-bb31-4472-a604-083b508c478d/1948+Peggy+Moran+Macbeth+067.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Peggy Moran, Universal actress, about 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/ff5ec98d-aeda-4e16-b1be-97b8ba07ffe5/Roman+1917.jpg Stories - Roman Freulich, Innovator - Make it stand out Roman in 1917, before joining the Jewish Legion. 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Henry is in the dark overcoat, standing to the side of the camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741476426373-XKL49Q83E7QHK8YZHRCE/Henry+Bronze+Star+45+014.jpg Stories - Fighting With A Camera Henry Freulich receiving the Bronze Star following the surrender of Japanese troops on Okinawa, June, 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741478317398-VDVODWTWZC9FA8LO61TU/1930+probably+from+pos+010.jpg Stories - Fighting With A Camera At a small park next to the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Łódź Poland. Sura Rifka Jelen, Henry Freulich, Helena Freulich, Jack Freulich, Nisla Mirla Freulich, Rafal Jelen. Spring, 1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6780763deadba17e196bb565/1741478340564-J0GUVXPWAYDVRIGKMV07/Lodz+1930.jpg Stories - Fighting With A Camera Jack Freulich with his mother, two sisters,nephew and son In the courtyard of his mother's apartment building in Łódź, Poland. 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