Barbara Kaplan Mermelstein: "I would love to help you in any way I can. When my dad Sam was in his 80’s, I got the idea that it was important to ask him some questions about the family. The only thing I know about my Grandfather Jacob is that after my Grandmother passed away, my Grandfather moved back to the old country. According to my dad he remarried but that’s all I know."
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Mildred Ziskind: So his father stayed here for a while and then he went back to Europe.
AP: He did?
MZ: He went back, and I understand that he got, well he might have been young at that time too, and he got married and he might have started up another family, I don’t know.
AP: And you never heard from him again.
MZ: No. But my uncles knew something. I think they did, I think my uncles heard from him and I think he did have another family.