Journey's end: migrants then and now
from Robin Lustig A little over three months ago, Stu and I set out on this journey that we have called In The Footsteps of Our Families....
With my father back in Berlin, city of his birth
from Robin Lustig “Berlin has changed quite a bit in the past 75 years,” said my Dad as we pounded the streets where he spent the first...
Back in the Isle of Man after 74 years
from Robin Lustig It's blowing a gale, and thunderous waves are crashing against the sea wall. I've brought my 95-year-old father to the...
Hamburg: gateway to the world
from Robin Lustig On 13 April 1939, my father boarded the SS President Roosevelt and sailed from Hamburg to Southampton. Three months...
Row Houses, Cigars and Goldfish
From Stu Seidel ... My perspective on an immigrant’s journey is almost wholly defined by my paternal grandparents, Sara and Julius...
Berlin then and now
from Robin Lustig I suppose it’s not surprising, if you embark on a journey in search of your family roots, that you end up visiting a...
Sara (nee. Jaffe) and Julius Seidel
From Stu Seidel ... Setting out to follow the footsteps of my paternal grandparents, Sara (nee. Jaffe) and Julius Seidel, from their...
A grandfather's grave
from Robin Lustig ... In a far corner of the “new” Jewish cemetery (opened 1902) in the Polish city of Wrocław, Piotr Gotowicki is...
Poland Past and Present
From Stu Seidel ... Poland was so extensively devastated during World War II that it can seem a 65-year-old visitor to the country is...
Death and Life in Kaunas
From Stu Seidel ... Like most tourists visiting Europe, Robin Lustig and I set out on our current trip to Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and...
