Lottie Hirsch Goodwin was born Lieselotte Veronika Hirsch in Karlsruhe Baden, Germany, on November 20, 1916. She was the third and youngest child of Heinrich and Jenny Hirsch. Heinrich, later Henry Higdon, owned a factory that made military uniforms for the First World War and, after war ended with demilitarization, for the railroad and postal service. Prior …
Read MoreRosalie Horenstein Goodman, a native Portlander, was born to Mike and Sadie Horenstein on February 5, 1929. She had a sister, Lorraine Lippoff, who was four years older. Her parents were born in Russia and emigrated to America in 1912, first to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania then to Portland, Oregon to join other family members. Rosalie grew …
Read MoreEdith Schnitzer Goodman was the daughter of Sam and Rose Schnitzer. Her father started his life in Oregon as a junk peddler and ended it as the owner of the vast Schnitzer Steel Corporation. Edith had six siblings: brothers Manuel, Morris, Gilbert, Harold and Leonard and sister Molly Schnitzer (Levine). She was a graduate of Lincoln …
Read MoreEmma Bader Glickman was born March 23, 1905 in Portland, Oregon. Emma’s father lived in Dublin, Ireland and Winnipeg, Canada before moving to Portland. Her mother came from Germany and lived in a number of places in the US before settling in Seattle. She eventually moved to Portland, where met and married Emma’s father in …
Read MoreRobert Glasgow was born on November 13, 1944 in Portland, Oregon. His parents are Joseph Glasgow and Lena (Lee) Friedman Glasgow Schiff, and his siblings are Sara Glasgow Cogan, Boruk Glasgow, and William Glasgow. Joseph was born in Lithuania, and Lena was born in Brooklyn, New York; they came to Portland to work in the …
Read MoreHarry Gevurtz was born in Portland on January 8, 1897 to Isaac and Cecelia Gerson Gevurtz. His parents met in Oregon and were married by Rabbi Jacob Bloch at Temple Beth Israel in 1986. He had two brothers: Louis and Milton. He also had twin sisters: Lillian (Brandt) and Fanny (Crohn). He went to Ladd Elementary School, Lincoln High …
Read MoreBelle Bloom Gevurtz was born to Max Blum (Bloom) and Mary Nachamovitch in Taunton, Massachusetts on July 7, 1895. The family moved shortly thereafter to Waterbury, Connecticut before moving to San Francisco in 1906 where her father ran a shoe store. They survived the great earthquake but they lost their house and her father’s store. They …
Read MoreMorris Galen was born in 1927 in Portland, Oregon to Isaac and Ruth Galen. His father arrived at Ellis Island with his family on September 3, 1907 from Kamenicz, Russia and came to Portland by train through Canada. The family name in Russia had been Matiches. It was changed at Ellis Island to Goldstein and Morrie …
Read MoreJack Fruchtengarten was born on August 28th, 1924 in Opole Lubaelski, Poland. He was one of five children in an observant family in a small town. He was educated through seventh grade there, and also sent to cheder for a Jewish education. But after the Nazis invaded Poland Jack and his brother were told to run. …
Read MoreHarry Friedman, the youngest of four children, was born in Warsaw, Poland on August 7, 1918. He attended Jewish school and then gymnasium in Warsaw, eventually working in his parents’ wholesale hat business when he graduated. He describes his family as averagely Jewish, observing all holidays and keeping kosher at home. When the war started …
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