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How we got here : the Barrie family in America / Michael Barrie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrie, Michael, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barry family.
- Baranoff, Abraham, 1888-1968--Family.
- Gershowitz, Sarah, 1892-1951--Family.
- New York (State)--Genealogy.
- New York (State).
- Families.
- Genre:
- Genealogy.
- Family histories.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 362 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Produced by Remarkable Life Memoirs, LLC, [2018]
- Contents:
- Part 1. Chapter 1. It starts with the Gershowitzes
- Chapter 2. Escape from New York
- Chapter 3. "The Bronx? No Thonx!"
- Chapter 4. This means war
- Chapter 5. The future : a brief history
- Chapter 6. The name change
- Chapter 7. Memories of Abe and Sonia
- The Abraham Baranoff and Sonia Gershowitz family trees
- The George Barrie Branch
- The William Barrie Branch
- The Milt Barrie Branch
- Part 2. Letters to Harry
- Chaim Dovid's letters to Abe and Sonia
- Wartime letters from Milt and Willie.
- Notes:
- "From 1881 to 1914 two million Jews fled Eastern Europe for America. Two of them were my paternal grandparents, Abe and Sonia Baranoff. This is in large part their story" -- Preface.
- OCLC:
- 1112131256
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