Fatemah Farhadi was born in a small village in Persia on May 5, 1918 to Arman and Delara Farhadi. Arman was a farmer, and Delara cared for their only child, Fatemah. Fatemah attended high school [...]
Glen Mayer was born on September 15, 1932 in Chicago to Adolf Mayer and Elizabeth Bojars. It is thought that Adolf was a German immigrant and that Elizabeth may have been from Latvia. They [...]
Roger Fulton was born on June 24, 1915 in Chicago to William Fulton and Elizabeth Muller. William was an immigrant from England, and Elizabeth was Canadian, though it is thought she was of Swiss [...]
Beatrice “Bea” Weber was born on February 12, 1903 in Chicago to Francis Moran and Sarah O’Toole. Both Francis and Sarah were born in Dublin, Ireland, where Francis worked as a butcher and Sarah [...]
Ula Wojcik was born on October 24, 1906 in Indianapolis to Samuel Szymanski and Wislawa Mazur, both of who had immigrated to the United States in 1903 from Poland. Wislawa had been married [...]
Iveta Prochazka was born on February 8, 1923 in Czechoslovakia to Adam Klima and Bozena Pesek. Iveta was the youngest of three children, her older siblings being Radana and Rudolf. It is [...]
Jonathon Arthur Conrad was born on January 19, 1919 in Arkansas to Bruce “Bubba” Conrad and Marian Moore. Jonathon was apparently their only child. Bruce worked doing odd jobs, and Marian was a [...]
Apolena Moravec was born on June 30, 1902 in Korovyntsi, Ukraine, though Apolena refers to it as being part of Russia. Her father, Alexei Popov, was Russian, and her mother, Helena Lisiewicz, [...]
Ignac “Iggy” Rybar was born on September 23, 1926 in Trencin, Slovakia to Jacob Rybar and Amalia Laska. Jacob worked as an “outdoor maintenance man” and Amalia cared for their three children: [...]
Irving McDonald was born on April 2, 1915 in Chicago to Wesley McDonald and Lucille Rickert. Wesley was born in Pennsylvania but at some point moved to Chicago and began working as a mail [...]
