Sunday, Oct 19 (bday celebration) 150 words Had Gert, Myrtle Haling, Ruth, and Marge Johnson and Lucille Kaye as well as Ceil over to help celebrate my birthday. Had a most enjoyable day – one of the nicest birthdays I’ve [...]
Lillian Koroschetz, December, 1941 1941 was a watershed year in America. War was raging in Europe. Prior to Pearl Harbor, America was embroiled in debate about entering the war. But something else was brewing seventy years ago that [...]
Fred Gartz, dob October 10, 1914 […]
Samuel Ebner Sr.; my great-grandfather, Lisi Ebner/Gartz’s father Lisi Ebner, my grandmother, made the gut-wrenching sacrifice of leaving behind her family to follow her heart to America, to marry my grandfather, Josef. Or so I thought. It turns [...]
Berta Jickeli, Lisi Ebner’s employer and mentor in Hermannstadt/Sibiu We think of our grandparents as venerable and wise, unlikely to be impulsive, reckless, or spontaneous as youth is wont to be. But what if we could see them [...]