The Ornstein Gelfand Family

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The Ornstein Gelfand Family is written by Susan Gelfand Malka and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0986096105 (ISBN 10) and 9780986096105 (ISBN 13).

This is the personal story of two families. Two Jewish families who both came to America in the first decade of the twentieth century. Neither family knew each other before settling and marrying in Philadelphia.The Magyar speaking Ornstein family came from Serednye and the Carpathian mountains which were then part of Austro-Hungary but today are in western Ukraine. The Russian speaking Gelfand family came from Belarus. This profusely documented and illustrated book tells the story of these two families. Some stayed in the old country and fought the Nazis as part of the Russian army while others emmigrated and started a new life in the United States.