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She and her family, along with thousands of others, rushed to Cobh to help the survivors. [16] [10] Elmes was also exposed to the violence of the War of Independence when the family business was burned out by British forces in 1920. Despite the turmoil, Elmes was encouraged by her family to travel and study.
Aldo Bensadoun (Hebrew: אלדו בן סעדון) was born in Fez to a Moroccan Jewish family; his father was a shoe retailer in Fez, Morocco and France.Bensadoun moved to the United States for his post-secondary education.
Nathan Swartz was born to a poor Jewish family in July 1902 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, the fourth generation of a family of shoemakers. [1] Soon before the First World War, the family migrated to the US.
Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertrude are five sisters growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1912. The book follows them through a year of their childhood, as they deal with mundane chores, find joy in eating candy in bed and collecting used books from their father's junk shop, recover from scarlet fever, and celebrate Jewish holidays such as Purim and Sukkot as well as the ...
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Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) was an American politician, model, and television actress who in 1945 became the first Jewish Miss America.Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, was seen as an affirmation of the Jewish place in American life.
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Taft's Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Jacob Levinsons and Pauline Levinsons (née Levine), [2] were originally from Latvia and were unaware of their photographer's decision to enter the photograph into the contest until learning that the photo of their daughter had been selected by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels as the winner.