People A-Z / Gerda Weissmann KleinHumanitarian, Holocaust Survivor, author, public speaker and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree. 1924-2022OverviewFrom Bielsko to Volary Gerda Weissmann (later Klein) was born in Bielsko, Poland, on May 8, 1924. Growing up into a...
People A-Z / Rabbi Isaac Klein1905–1979OverviewRabbi Isaac Klein (1905-1979) was born in a village in Czechoslovakia on September 8, 1905. He migrated to the United States in 1920. Studying at the Elchanan Yeshiva (now part of Yeshiva University) he earned a...
Portrait of Jewish serviceman Lt. Kurt Klein, US Army, Military Intelligence,1945. Photograph Number: 43251. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Used with permission.
People A-Z / Kurt KleinHumanitarian, public speaker, former refugee, US Military Intelligence Service officer, “Ritchie Boy.” 1920-2002OverviewBirth and Emigration to the USA Kurt Klein was born in Walldorf, near Heidelberg, in Baden, Germany to parents, Alice and...
Leslie Shuman Kramer, 2020. Courtesy of The Shuman Family.
Leslie Shuman Kramer was a dedicated community leader, former attorney and a committed advocate and fundraiser for many causes, especially the fight against cancer.
People A-Z / Milton MilsteinArchitect 1911-1993OverviewMilton Milstein was born in Brooklyn in 1911, trained at the School of Architecture at Syracuse University, and was granted a license to practice in 1942. He was made a fellow of the American Institute of...
People A-Z / Mordecai Manuel NoahJudge, Writer, Utopian and Proto-Zionist. 1785–1851OverviewMordecai Manuel Noah was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 19, 1785 to Manuel Noah, a Revolutionary war hero and Zipporah Phillips a descendent of Dr. Samuel Nunez,...
People A-Z / Rabbi Joseph RabinowitzRabbi Eliyahu Yosef Rabinowitz, Linzer Rebbe from Buffalo 1856–1910OverviewPine Ridge is the site of an ohel (tomb) for Rabbi Joseph Rabinowitz (b. ca 1856; d. Buffalo, November 14, 1910). Due to the proximity of the Ohel in...
Cecil B. Wiener, Executive Director of the Jewish Federation, c.1940s, Ms225, Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo, 1914-2011. University Archives, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Used with Permission.
People A-Z / Cecil WienerSuffragette, Judge, Social Welfare Professional. 1874–1960OverviewCecil B. Wiener was a woman of many “firsts” over a working life of more than fifty years. Born in 1874, Cecilia Bertha Wiener, known as Cecil, was the daughter of Magnus...
Hannah Haber Laufer, 1890s, courtesy of Susan Freed, Mollie Freed, Leonard J. Freed, Joan Karet and Linda Briks
Ahavas Achim-Lubavitz created by Sherwin Greenberg, Courtesy of the Cofeld Judaic Museum, Temple Beth Zion.