Written by Sam Saddigh on September 8, 2015
Nurit Kotick was born in Haifa, Israel, and is one of 3 daughters of Benjamin Midler, a Holocaust survivor from Biaylstok, Poland, and Esther Midler, from Cairo, Egypt. After the war, Ben met Esther in Israel and after having 2 children, migrated to Chicago, Illinois. In 1976, after graduating college, Nurit moved to Los Angeles and over the next 10 years, the rest of her family followed.
Early in her career, Nurit became a paralegal for Atlantic Richfield. Realizing her passion
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Written by adminTS on January 23, 2014
Sam Rubinfeld was born in Poland in 1941. He and his parents stayed in Poland until 1947, when they immigrated to the United States. They eventually moved to Los Angeles in 1952 and settled in the Fairfax area, as many European Jews did at that time.
Sam graduated Fairfax High in 1959 and went on to college. After graduation, he joined his father in a showcase business in downtown Los Angeles. Sam’s interests have always been in real estate,
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Written by adminTS on January 23, 2014
Ann Rubinfeld was born after World War II. Ann’s mother is a Holocaust survivor who, at 14 years old, was taken into a concentration camp. Her mother remained in concentration camps for five years, including 18 months in Auschwitz.
Ann’s family came to Los Angeles in 1949, when she was 18 months old. She went to Fairfax High and then to dental assistant school; however, she worked most of her career as a surgery coordinator for a busy ophthalmology practice.
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Written by adminTS on January 23, 2014
Michael Zelon was born in Plock, Poland. He is a Holocaust survivor, having escaped horrific slave labor and concentration camps. After liberation, he returned to Plock to complete his high school education. He then went on to, and graduated from, the Technical University in Munich, Germany.
In 1952, he and his wife immigrated to the United States and started their family. Mr. Zelon joined North American Aviation where he worked on the Apollo and other space shuttle programs.
Written by adminTS on January 23, 2014
Rosemary Elperin was born in Bamberg, Germany, shortly after World War II. Her parents were Holocaust survivors. Her mother, Toni, was in Bergen-Belsen while her father Jack was liberated from Dachau. Her family left Germany and landed in New Orleans before eventually settling down in Los Angeles.
A product of local schools, Rosemary went on to receive her Bachelor of Arts in History from California State University, Northridge. She married Bill Elperin upon graduation and helped support him while he
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