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By Marjorie Searl Elisabeth (Lies) Teutsch Blum was born in Nuremberg on October 3, 1894. Like her father, she was trained as a lawyer, but never practiced after her marriage […]
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By Marjorie Searl The daughter of Frederick (Fritz) Blum and Elisabeth (Lies) Blum, Ursula Blum Granite was born in Nuremberg on May 1, 1929. As the noose around the Jews […]
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On this solemn day of tribute to our fallen soldiers from the past we met at the Civil War plot with members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the […]
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On May 11th Anna Murray Douglass School #12 celebrated the life of the school’s namesake. Hundreds of parents, students, teachers, community leaders, and administrators enjoyed great food, music, and community […]
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2022 marked Year One in our work with the Studio 678 program. The mission of the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery focuses on education, and we are committed to supporting […]
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Anneliese Rayburn (née Pfingst) was born in 1919 to Alfred and Frieda Pfingst in Minden, Westphalia, Germany. She was the eldest of three children, including a sister fifteen months younger […]
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In the coming months, the Frederick Douglass family plot at Mount Hope Cemetery will have two new headstones—one for his wife, Anna Murray Douglass, and one for his ten-year old […]
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2021 is the third and final year of a project to repair all the gravestones in areas contiguous to the Susan B. Anthony gravesite. This year’s work is focused on […]
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Ludwig Litten was born in Jastrow, Poland on June 2, 1898. He received his medical degree in Munich in 1922 and did further training in obstetrics and gynecology in Berlin. […]
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William (Bill) Konar was the youngest of four children born to a family living in the city of Radom, Poland, about 70 miles south of Warsaw. His father died when […]
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