Jerry Sadis was born and raised in the Sephardic Jewish community of Seattle, Washington. His parents were Sarah Castriano and Jack Sadis. As a young man Jerry worked at his father’s co-owned West Hills Fish Market in Seattle. He attended University of Washington and after graduation in 1965, he married Bunny Mitchell. The couple moved to …
Read MoreLouis Rotenberg was born in Portland in 1914. He grew up in South Portland and later in the Park Blocks, attending Shattuck, Failing, Cleveland and Lincoln Schools. Lou’s father Hyman owned a bakery where Lou and his two brothers worked as boys, although their mother counseled them to stay away from the bakery business as a …
Read MoreAlan Rosenfeld was born in 1923, the youngest son of Ruth Goldsmith Rosenfeld and Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld. He had two siblings: Helen Rosenfeld Lackman and Dr. Edward Rosenfeld. He attended Ainsworth Grade School and Lincoln High School in Portland. He began his undergraduate career at Stanford University before the Second World War. From 1944 to 1945, …
Read MoreJeanne Mittleman Newmark was born in Portland, Oregon on April 10, 1930 to Helen and Harry Mittleman, the youngest of four girls. Her sisters were Marian, Charlotte, and Babette. Helen and Harry Mittleman were both born in Nebraska in 1900 and, after marrying, moved to Castle Rock, Washington, where Harry owned a grocery store. When …
Read MoreLeah Tkatch Nepom was born in Fredonia, Kansas, on February 29, 1928 (a leap year birthday). Her parents, Chaya and Yelic (Joe), were immigrants from Russia. They landed first in Illinois, but upon hearing of cheap land for sale, relocated to Fredonia, Kansas, where Leah and both of her sisters, Bessy and Edna, were born. She …
Read MoreErnest Markewitz was born in Portland, Oregon, on January 11, 1903 to Milton and Frances Markewitz. His family had been in the United States for several generations. His parents were born in Portland, and met and married there. They had two sons, Ernest and his brother Arthur. Ernest’s father Milton co-founded the Bushong printing company, where …
Read MoreShirley Mark was born in Portland on July 4, 1923 to Max and Florence Casler Berenson, Polish and Russian immigrants, respectively. She had three older brothers, Milton, Bernard, and Norman. who were all grown and out of the house for most of her childhood. The family kept a religious home, on SW 15th Street and …
Read MoreAbraham Edward “English” Rosenberg was born on June 17, 1901 in Hull, England to Lazarus and Anna Rosenberg. He was born the second of seven children. His parents were originally from the Kovno gubernia in Russia, and they moved to Hull in approximately 1899. Abraham and his family immigrated to the United States in 1914 and …
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