a sense of face
family, pictures, and memory
michael pfenig
mechel, 1900/2012
In February, all I knew was that my great-great-great grandfather had come to the United States in 1889, but not what became of him after his arrival. I didn’t know if he stayed in America, if he went home, how long he lived, when he died. Now, in May, I know that he stayed here, [...]
chaje and michael, 1889
Anna/Chaje Fenning Blaustein, unknown baby Blaustein and Celia/Czippe Fenning Buxbaum, ca 1890s In late summer 1889, my great-great-great grandfather Michael Pfenig and his youngest daughter Chaje made the trip from their small shtetl of Zmigrod (in what is now Poland) to New York City. They sailed via Hamburg on a ship called the SS Hammonia [...]
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