Rosalie 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 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 MoreBeverly Galen was born on February 17, 1927 in New York City to Beatrice and George Weiner. The family lived in Brooklyn when she was a child and then followed her paternal grandfather, Louis Weiner, first to Los Angeles and then to Portland, Oregon. Louis worked at Modish Coat and Suit and got a job for …
Read MoreSylvan Durkheimer was born March 14, 1893 in Burns, Oregon. Both of his grandfathers immigrated to the United States in their early teens to escape the military draft in Germany. His paternal grandfather, Kaufman Durkheimer, came to the US from Bavaria in 1839 and to Portland in 1865 by boat around South America. His maternal grandfather, …
Read MoreJoan (Joanie) Campf was born in Northeast Portland in November 1942 to George and Sylvia Davis Campf; her brother is Melvin Campf. Her grandparents on her father’s side were Sam and Molly Sherman Campf. Sam was the head tailor in the Men’s Department of the downtown Meier & Frank Department Store. Before that time, he …
Read MoreJeremiah Jerome “Jimmy” Berg was born in Edmonton, Alberta on June 25, 1914. His family lived in Great Falls, Montana until 1919 when they moved to Portland. In 1920, Jimmy’s father purchased the Grant Street Theater, the Kearney Theater, and the Sunnyside Theater. He later owned the Lincoln Theater. The whole family worked at the theaters. …
Read MoreHarry Arnsberg was born in 1911 in Republic, Washington to immigrant parents from Grodno gubernia, Russia (which is sometimes in Poland). Harry’s parents met in England and married in Liverpool in 1900. They had their first child, Harry’s oldest sister Mildred, in England before moving to South Africa, where they had their second child, Harry’s …
Read MoreMorris Tiktin was born in New York City, in 1921, to Samuel and Miriam Tiktin, who came to the US from Palestine where his mother was born. He was the youngest in a large family, and grew up in a religious home, which he scorned and avoided. After high school, he was drafted into the US …
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