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Isaac Finkelstein at 18

Isaac was 18 years old.

He could feel the Russian Army coming after him and he wanted no part of that.  He was already modern and ambitious.  He announced to his father "Tateh, I am going to America." Then came Duvid's classic response, "If I let you go alone my son, I lose a son. I have no choice. I must go with you." So it was, that Duvid-Noach and Isaac went to America in 1912 leaving behind Malka and seven children.

Within six months, they had saved and scrimped enough, so that they could send for Becky and Bessie. And by the beginning of 1914, the four of them had worked so that they could bring over Malka and the rest of the family. They were lucky. They were able to leave Europe just before World War I broke out in August 1914.  

Malka and Duvid-Noach opened a grocery stand on Maxwell Street. They worked hard, their children helped and they survived the War years.

Malka and Duvid-Noach's children got married.  Becky was first in 1917. She married Hyman Greenblatt who was also from Bogria.

Isaac and Anna married on November 17, 1918, just one week after World War I ended in Europe.

Bessie followed shortly thereafter, marrying Joe Bernstein, who unfortunately  died within two years of consumption (tuberculosis), a common disease of the underprivileged in those years. Bessie remarried Phillip Katz. They had two children, Arline and Robert. Irving was as a Bernstein -later Brent

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Arline, Robert and Irving