These pages are dedicated to the memory of Nathan and Tillie Berger, z"l, who had the wisdom and courage to come to this wonderful country.

In 1897, Naftali Berger, 19 years old, left the city of Chernowitz in southwest Ukraine to start a new life in America. In 1900, Antonia Eisenberg, 17 years old, left Voinyliv, a town in western Ukraine, traveling to New York with her older married sister. The two young Jews from Galicia lived in New York's Lower East Side, among nearly half a million other Jews.

Naftali and Antonia, not yet using the more American names we remember, Nathan and Tillie, probably met in 1901. They married on January 28, 1902 and had four children.

• Samuel Berger

• Anna Berger Feigenbaum

• Lillie Berger Connor

• Esther Berger Reimer
   

The next generation numbered nine. For those nine grandchildren and for their descendants we present the following:

• History
  Early documents (1897 - 1930), and more. about the family in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn.

• Recording
  An oral history of the early days in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn. Made in 1976 by Tillie Berger and her daughters Lillie Connor and Esther Reimer.

• Photographs
  A page of family photos from 1902 - 1973, courtesy of Stan Feigenbaum, son of Bernard and Anna Berger Feigenbaum.

Arnie Berger 
Son of Samuel Berger
Cleveland, Ohio   January 28, 2022