Happy 100th Anniversary! 10/13/1911-10/13/2011
Josef and Elsabetha Gartz—Wedding day October 13, 1911 Friday the thirteenth, a century ago, was a lucky day for my grandparents, Josef Gartz and Elisabetha Ebner, when they became husband and wife. […]
Happy Birthday, Dad…and G-G-G-Grandpa
Fred Gartz, dob October 10, 1914 […]
Left Behind
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 [...]
“Your Uncertain Fate”
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 [...]
Celebrating 100 Years in America 9/26/1911-9/26/2011
“This is my ship which brought me to America in the year 1911. Landing in NY- Disembarked 7:00 pm 26th September”; written on the back of this post card by Elisabetha Ebner A century ago this evening, at [...]