A couple of days ago, Joanne was rereading the Hilda affidavit and noticed this line.
The list of chief objects from the apartment that I remember after so many years are provided separately, just as are the important jewelry items.
The eldest child of Stanley and Helga Ruby turned his youthful zeal for the Jewish state into a lifetime of works for peace and reconciliation
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Editorial technologist who created Family History Machine
Since this story from our teenage years appears prominently on Family History Machine, let's add some content to it by recording some of our memories.
I don't recall how we got the assignment to serve as messengers for the Eugene McCarthy campaign in its offices in the Chicago Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue. We had both done door-knocking in Illinois and Wisconsin for the candidate during the primary campaign. Our mother, Helga, was active in DuPage County Democratic Party politics, so she probably had something to do with getting us the gig.
The rough-cut Parisian jeweler who married our aunt Hilda
A cultured and affluent Berlin Jewish widow who escaped from Europe with her teenage daughter, Helga. Elly remade a life as an emigre New Yorker—but it could never replace what had been left behind.
The younger brother of Friedereke Paechter Wohlgemutgh