Browse Items (329 total)

Alvin I. Handloff died on Friday, July 30, 2004 at the age of 91.
Alvin lived most of his life in Newark and Wilmington, DE and was a graduate of the University of Delaware and George Washington Law School. He served as an officer in the Navy…

Holocaust survivor and educator

William Feinberg (1900-1989) was a Wilmington based businessman and WWI navy veteran. He inherited the H. Feinberg Furniture Co. from his father and, in 1965 made what would come to be known as the “Market Street Decision”, in which her chose to…

Died October 29, 1989, age 74
Graduated from Wilmington High School
WWII Army veteran
Comptroller at Allied Kid Co., retired 1977
1977 enrolled at UD, earned bachelors and master’s in Art History
Won a 1984 essay competition by Sister Cities of…

Rabbi Simon Krinsky was a Polish immigrant who moved to the U.S. after being ordained in Palestine. Prior to his ordination, he attended the Theological Seminary of Slabodka in Lithuania and earned a teaching degree from the Polish government. He…

Robert Pilnick died May 16, 1985, at the age of 64.
He was a Newark native, and owned Pilnick’s Shoes in city for 45 years. Acquired Carl Cobin Shoes
He was a WWII army veteran, served in North Africa & Italy. Received purple heart after being…

Martin Briefman, a grocer and merchant in Wilmington for many years, died Dec. 20, 1984, at the age of 89.
Mr. Briefman, formerly of 200 W. Second St. and of Miami, served in the Navy prior to World War I. During the 1920s and early 1930s, he was a…

Sarah Francis Goldstein was a native of Delaware, she grew up in Wilmington, attended Wilmington Public Schools, graduated from the University of Delaware in 1930, received a MS in music education from the University of Pennsylvania, and studied at…