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Helga Ringel

Married surname: Ruby

Born into a German Jewish family, she escaped with her mother at age 14 and built a new life as an idealistic American 

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Escape from Berlin—last good chance to get out

Lisbon to New York—with a detour to Havana

Green Valley Drive—our exurban childhood

Motives for mercy—the consuls of Toulouse

On Hill Avenue

Stan finds love outside of a 20-block radius

Our family during the Nazi years in Berlin

The Ringels in Berlin—time of prosperity

A milliner's daughter in Long Beach

Helga at the Theodor Herzl School

Life in Nice—our personal Sitzkrieg
  • 2021-08-12
Antwerp reunion and onward to France
  • 2021-08-12
Across the Siegfried Line
  • 2021-08-12
Helga found a mentor at Julia Richman High School
  • 2021-08-11
Helga embraced American culture
  • 2021-08-11
Helga met Stan in Long Beach before he shipped out
  • 2021-08-11
Seaside escape from the sweltering city
  • 2021-08-11
Departing Berlin as if for a weekend trip
  • 2021-08-07
Illegals then and now
  • 2021-03-01
Edith and Gina in 1945
  • 2020-12-26

Person Data

Branch
Ringel, Ruby
Generation
1G
Gender
Female

Relationships

Father
Hermann Ringel
Mother
Elly Wohlgemuth
Husband
Stanley Ruby
Son
Walter Ruby (the younger)
Son
Dan Ruby
Daughter
Joanne Ruby

Milestones

Birth
October 20, 1924

Berlin
Germany

Other
June 2, 1947

New York, NY
United States

Marriage
June 6, 1947

New York, NY
United States

Death
April 25, 2005

Los Gatos, CA
United States

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