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My great-great uncle Leo's 1914 photo while in the Austro-Hungarian army in WWI. As a Warsaw Jew, he fled in WWII, but his wife and child were swallowed by the maw of the Ghetto, despite his continued efforts to get them out.pic.twitter.com/NDMF9iTSq4
His flight was exhausting: he fled first on foot, with nothing but the suit he was wearing. He headed first to Vilnius, then Moscow, then Kobe, then Shanghai, then Johannesburg, then Lisbon, then London, and finally New York City, to live with his sister (my great-grandmother).
In Warsaw, he had owned five movie theaters and was married to the heiress of a banking fortune. In New York, he flipped hot dogs at a Nedick's. Easy come, easy go.
I'm spending Spring Break making interviews with my great-aunt, getting down the family history. Here is her father's (my great-grandfather's) Butter and Egg store, in Port Chester, New York (he is second from left).pic.twitter.com/rupfoi3UW8
In the mid-1930s they upgraded the store and enlarged it, and put an apartment on top of it. The photos are kind of amazing — lots of detail. Lots of things other than just butter and eggs!pic.twitter.com/BY8Ct2mDF4
But in 1937, my great-grandfather suddenly died. His nephew opened up a competitor store across the street, and drove my great-grandmother out of business. After the store was gone, my grandfather, aged 17, became the household's breadwinner, working in a bolt and nut factory.pic.twitter.com/qAxSgrHewq
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Great thread and an impressive family you have. Thanks for sharing.
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