Know where you came from Barbara Bandler Steinmetz Once Barbara is accepted into college, she and Howard request and receive Margit and Alexander’s approval for their engagement and meet with their local rabbi. They wed in a traditional Jewish ceremony in 1956....
Life as an American teenager Barbara Bandler Steinmetz Barbara is one step closer to being an all-American teenager in September 1951, when she becomes a U.S. citizen and starts high school. She goes on to become a cheerleader and captain of her high school’s swim...
Eyes forward Barbara Bandler Steinmetz At the end of the 1947 school year, Barbara and Ann are once again off to a Jewish summer camp. Two months later, Margit and Alexander pick them up and bring them to yet another new city: Detroit. The Bandlers can still only...
Old dreams, new lessons Barbara Bandler Steinmetz Barbara and her sister spend the summer of 1946 at another Jewish camp. While they are away, their father receives a promising job offer to work at a restaurant in Arverne, a modest beachfront community in New York...
Boston: New challenges Barbara Bandler Steinmetz Budapest is liberated from Nazi occupation by Soviet forces in February 1945, just weeks before the Bandlers receive word in March 1945 that their U.S. visas have been granted. One day towards the end of May 1945,...
