Morris Rosen: in memory of my dear grandfather

Morris Rosen, 1887--1952, immigrated from the Ukraine to the UNited States after being denied entry into England, ostensibly because was tubercular. This diagnosis had no basis in fact; it was a religious/ cultural bias against Jewsh people, who were said to be carriers of TB. Arriving in the United States, he working in the gament industry as a presser. He met and married Rose Handelman. The couple had two children George and Frank, the former became a physician, the latter a lawyer. Grandchildren they had too; George and his wife Beate Caspari fathered Paul Peter Rosen and Siusan Joan Rosen; Jack, who died at the very early age of 49, married Thelma, and the couple also had two children, Frank and Bobbie (Barbara). Today the family lives on in great grand children.

Morris was a loving sweet grandfather and I vividly remember his powerful embrace that expressed his love in a physical manner as well as in Yiddish. I wished I could speak to him now and show him what his loving union produced.

The photograph shows Morris and his beloved wife Rose in Canterbury Connecticut at my parents home. Not many years after this photograh was taken, Morris died of a heart attack.