Content Description
One box contatining a bound volume of Noah's Ark childrens newspaper, Hadassah minutes, cookbooks, and a WWII ration book documents some activities that Linda Freedman Block's family was involved in from 1922 to 2012.
Forms part of the South Texas Jewish Archives.
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Permission to publish material from the Linda Freedman Block family papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library. The Woodson Research Center use policy is that researchers assume sole responsibility for any infringement of privacy, literary rights, copyrights, or other rights arising from their use of the archival materials. In addition to any restrictions placed by donors, certain kinds of archival materials are restricted for the life of the creator plus 50 years. These materials include, but are not limited to, student grades, transcripts, and any job applications or recommendations.
Biographical / Historical
Linda Freedman Block family history:
Surname Knobler -
Goldie Berger Knobler was born on February 15, 1905 (Zarshynow, Russia), and died on May 13, 1996 (age 91). She entered the Jewish Children’s Home (JCH) in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 21, 1916, when she was 11, and left on July 8, 1922. When she “aged out” and left for Houston the Westheimer family “adopted” her.
She married Isadore Solomon Knobler (born July 23, 1897 - April 11, 1972, age 74) on February 15, 1925, on her 20th birthday.
Their children were:
First - a girl, stillborn in 1925;
Second - Betty Dove Knobler Freedman, born on July 29, 1928 (aged 95);
Third - Ivan William Knobler, born on October 1, 1931, died on March 16, 2018 (age 86).
Ivan married Enid Rosenbaum Knobler, who was born on November 27, 1945 and died on December 9, 2020 (age 75).
Surname Freedman -
Esther Clara Nodler Freedman was born to Marcus and Hinda Nodelr on March 1, 1901 (Jassy, Romania, according to Ellis Island records) and died on April 20, 1993 (age 93). She came to the United States on December 15, 1903.
She married Sam (Szmuel Chaskielewitz) Freedman. He was born on May 15, 1899, in Svislach (Svislač) on the border between modern-day Belarus and Poland. He considered himself Russian. He came to the United States on July 6, 1914. He died on May 12, 1965 (age 65). His brother Harry was born in the same city, as well as, probably, their sister Dora Freedman Levit. (the city is located on the border, and got transferred between countries in the first half of the 20th century, hence different records suggest different countries of birth - Belarus, Poland or Russia)
Their children were:
First - Harold Jerome Freedman, born on July 6, 1921, died on February 15, 2015 (age 93);
Second - Milton Leslie Freedman, born on November 22, 1923, died on November 12, 2008 (age 84); and
Third - Alfred Gene Freedman, born on June 26, 1930, died on August 22, 2008 (age 78).
Milton Leslie Freedman married Betty Dove Knobler.
The Freedman family ran several grocery supply companies in the second half of the 20th century.
