Everyone but the kitchen sink
Posted in Klebansky on Dec 12th, 2012
December 12, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary since my grandmother, Sophie Klebanska Neff, arrived in the United States on the SS Finland (grandma’s on the lower right, wearing the white head scarf). From New York Harbor she took a train to Chicago. She was 17. Had she not made the decision to leave Slonim, Belarus, [...]
Posted in Chernorudsky on Dec 8th, 2012
In June of this year, I read the history column in my local paper, that’s written by my friend Mike Lawler, head of the Crescenta Valley Historical Association. The column described how a Dr. Max Gecht had owned a sanitarium in La Crescenta on a site that I can see from my kitchen window. I [...]
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