Elaine Bassler Mardus by Holly Lebowitz Rossi My maternal grandmother, Elaine Bassler Mardus (1914-2009), adored travel and was taught to marvel at the wide world by her mother, my great-grandmother, Ethelle Bassler. Between the two world wars, mother and daughter made several trips from their home in Cincinnati—where my great-grandparents owned an upscale fur coat shop—to Europe and the Middle East. In 1930, they traveled by ship—the White Star Line ship S. S. Laurentic—thro

Aurelia Finzi (nee Levi) (1874-1943) by Sylvia Finzi Above is a photo of my paternal grandmother, Aurelia Finzi (nee Levi), taken in Milan, Italy sometime in the late 1930s-early 40s and another of her together with my grandfather, my father and his sister in the 1920s, also in Milan. Aurelia was born in 1874 to a middle class Jewish family in Piedmont, Italy. She married my grandfather in 1901 and moved to Milan. She had two children - my father, Giulio, born in 1903 and his

Anna Rebecca Greenberg Lebow Born 1894 Wheeling, WV Died 1991 Los Angeles, CA by Alicia Bay Laurel My grandmother, Anna Rebecca Greenberg Lebow, at age 54, holding my cousin, Phil Lebow in her arms. My grandfather, Charles Harry Lebow, is holding me (my foot is in his pocket). Phil's adorable older sister Janet stands in front. Anna was valedictorian of her high school class in Wheeling, WV, and was also captain of the girls' basketball team. Her family could not afford to s