Paul Meyer was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 12, 1925 to Abraham and Adele (Rosenfeld) Meyer. Theirs was a politically active and educated family. Adele, born in Harlem, graduated from Hunter College in 1919 with degrees in German and music. She performed opera in synagogues and churches. Abraham immigrated from Russia in 1906 …
Read MoreRabbi Emanuel Rose was born in Jamaica, New York on October 20, 1931, to Abraham and Mary Rose into a family lineage boasting fifteen generations of rabbis. He received his ordination from the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1957 and served for three years at Congregation Emanuel in Manhattan before moving to Portland, Oregon …
Read MoreIrwin Burton Holzman was born in Portland, Oregon on January 4, 1930 to Lena and Jerome Holzman. His paternal great grandparents arrived in Oregon in 1859 and settled in Baker first, and later in Albany. His mother’s side, too had been in the west a long time. His mother was born in Washington state. Jerome …
Read MoreSolomon David Menashe was born on November 17, 1925 to David and Joanna Capeloto Menashe. Sol’s father had immigrated from the Isle Rhodes in 1914 and his mother was from Mecina, Turkey. They married in 1924 and opened a soda fountain on the corner of Broadway and Taylor. The family joined the Sephardic synagogue, Ahavath …
Read MoreHarry Glickman was born in Portland on May 13, 1924. He was raised in South Portland by his mother, Bessie Glickman after his parents divorced when he was five years old. He attended Shattuck Grade School and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1941. When Harry’s mother remarried and moved to Seattle, Harry chose to …
Read MoreMerwyn “Mitch” Greenlick was born and raised in Northwest Detroit, in a vibrant Jewish community. He went to McCarroll Elementary and Central High School—which was about 80% Jewish— then Wayne State University for pharmacy degrees (undergraduate and Masters), and finally got a doctorate in pharmacy administration at the University of Michigan. Growing up, Mitch worked …
Read MoreEline Hoekstra Dresden was born the youngest of four Jewish children on January 4, 1923 in The Hague, The Netherlands; two years later her family moved to Utrecht, The Netherlands. It was apparent to Eline’s family that some parts of Europe were no longer safe for Jews as soon as the beginning of the Second World …
Read MoreGunter Hiller was born an only child in 1928 to working class parents outside of Berlin, Germany. He attended school briefly in Berlin before his parents moved the family to Amsterdam in the summer of 1938. Gunter was in public school in Amsterdam, but only briefly; the pogroms forced him and all of his other …
Read MoreSanford Heilner was born in Baker, Oregon around 1885 to German immigrant parents Sigmund and Clara. They had four children: Joseph, Jess, Mildred and Sanford (he was the youngest). Sanford’s father Sigmund owned a grocery store in Baker. When two of Clara’s cousins – Gerson and Bert Neuberger – joined the family in Oregon, they …
Read MorePeter Greg was born Peter Guggenheimer on March 26, 1925 in Berlin, Germany. He was the only child of a Jewish father and a Christian mother. Peter attended grade school and gymnasium in Berlin until 1942 when all of the Jewish students were expelled from public German schools. Although the pogroms and the war made …
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