A Molovinsky Memoir

I put yesterday's post about Harry Molovinsky on the Allentown Chronicles Facebook page. A woman whose father also worked for the park department commented that Harry took some harassment being the only Jew working for the park department in the 1940's.

Jews attending William Allen twenty years later were still frequently reminded that they were Jewish. Although I grew up spending time with my father's siblings and their children, I knew virtually nothing of my father's cousins. 

It is my understanding that my grandfather Aaron came to Allentown first in 1891, and when he had earned enough, sent for his parents and siblings from Lithuania. A butcher like my grandfather, his brother Jacob opened a meat market on 2nd Street. Harry also was a meat cutter before getting a job cutting grass with the parks. Sisters included Florence, Bessie and Annie. The entire family, including my great grandparents, lived on 2nd Street.

shown above are my father's cousins, sons of Jacob, who all served (WW2) at the same time