Levin - Chlebnikow memorabilia

Pictures and documents

Cira (Cyrille), Abram (Abraham), Rachel (Rose), Chane (Anna), Riwke (Eva), Scheine (Sonia), & Itte (Edith) Chlebnikow, listed on a Rotterdam passenger list in June 1895

Chaim (Haiman), Jacob, & Nossen (Nathan) Levita (Levin), listed on a Hamburg passenger list in August 1896

Basche (Bessie), Mores (Morris), Schule (Ula), Roche (Rachel), Feine (Fred) Leuin (Levin), listed on a Hamburg passenger list in September 1897

Haiman and Bessie Levin and their children, 1897

Google map of the birthplaces of Jacob Levin and his parents Haiman Levin (Levita) and Bessie Israel and of Pauline Chlebnikow and her parents Joseph and Celia Chlebnikow

Haiman Levin bottle

Joseph & Cyrille Chlebnikow (Daguerreotype)

Chlebnikow samovar, brought with them from Russia

Chlebnikow children, 1903

Pauline Chlebnikow and three friends (Pauline is the second from the right)

Jacob and Pauline Levin with daughter Josephine, 1904

Haiman Levin's Petition for Naturalization, 31 October 1907

Fred (age 9) and Herbert (age 6) Levin, 1914

Cyrille and Joseph Chlebnikow and their grandchildren, 1917

Great Aunt "Big" Ula Levin (age 29), Ula Levin (age 3), and Herbert Levin (age 9), 1917

Haiman Levin obituary, January 1918

Jacob Levin passport (age 41), 1921

Jacob Levin passport photo (age 41), 1921

Herbert (age 15) and Lester (age 13) Levin, 1923

Bessie Israel Levin obituary, January 1924

Levin sons: Herbert (age 17), Lester (age 15), and Frederick (age 20) Levin, 1925

Levin children: Frederick (age 22), Josephine (age 23), Herbert (age 19), Ula (age 13), and Lester (age 17), 1927, looking forward
Levin children: Frederick (age 22), Herb (age 19), Josephine (age 23), Ula (age 13), and Lester (age 17), 1927, looking left

1930 newspaper ad for Real Fruit Beverage Company

Jo (age 24), Herb (age 20), and Ula (age 14) Levin, 1928

Pauline C. Levin (age 50), 1930

Joseph Chlebnikow's obituary, December 1931

Joseph and Celia Chlebnikow's grave stones, 1931 and 1932, A. M. White Lodge Cemetery, 422 Riverview Dr, Totowa, New Jersey, USA

Jacob and Pauline Levin's grave stones, 1931 and 1947, A. M. White Lodge Cemetery, 422 Riverview Dr, Totowa, New Jersey, USA

Ula Levin's senior class yearbook entry from Montclair State College, 1934

Fred Levin, Dick Rosenberg, Ula Levin, and Lester Levin, mid-1930's

Lester Levin (age 26), 1936

Herbert Levin (age 30) and Judy (age 3) and Dick (age 8) Rosenberg, 1938

Ula Levin (age 24), 1938

Ula Levin (age 26), 1940

Pauline Levin and her descendants in the 1940 US Census

Pauline C. Levin (age 61), 1941

Pauline Chlebnikow Levin and family, 1942

Pauline C. Levin (age 65), 1945

Jacob and Pauline Levin's descendants in the 1950 US Census

Ruth Levin visits the Rosenbergs in Park Forest, IL (Nancy Rosenberg on the left; Debra Rosenberg on the right; Bob Rosenberg sitting on Ruth Levin's lap) in April 1962

Levins, Rosenbergs, Kuetemeyers, and Birshs, 1967

Ula E. Levin's passport, 1968-1972

Dick Rosenberg, Ula Levin, and Judy Birsh in Glenview IL, around 1985

Memories in Memory of Ula, 1995 (27 MB PDF file)


Video and audio

Milton Rosenberg's home movies of:
Cyrille & Joseph Chlebnikow, Jo & Dick Rosenberg (age 1), Agnes Barr, and Herb, Ula, Lester & Fred Levin, 1931 (50 secs)

Lester Levin, Fred Levin, Herman Hoffman, Malvina Hoffman, and friends ice skating (16 secs)

Jo, Dick, & Judy Rosenberg, Ula Levin, Herb, Margaret, Carol & Ruth Levin in the backyard of the Levin House in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, summer 1947 (1 min, 14 secs)

Judith Rosenberg and Arthur Birsh's wedding, June 29, 1955, Nutley, New Jersey, at the home of Judith's aunt and uncle, Malvina and Herman Hoffman (1 min, 34 sec)

Audio of Fred Levin and Janie Levin Joselow singing "Sixteen Shades", ~1965 (2 mins, 19 secs)

John Levin audio interviews, ~1977

Interview of Rae (Rachel) Levin Kessler (3 hrs, 24 mins, 58 secs across five streaming mp3 audio files)

Interview of Josephine Levin Rosenberg (27 mins, 52 secs streaming mp3 audio file)

Interview of Son(ia) Chlebnikow Kleinberg (2 hrs, 33 mins, 50 secs across five streaming mp3 audio files)

Video interview of Ula Levin by Judy Rosenberg Birsh, April 16, 1993, (1 hr, 15 mins, 14 secs)


Family trees

Jacob Levin ancestors
Nathan Levita descendants

Pauline Chlebnikow Levin ancestors
Abram Chlebnikow descendants


Last updated: 16 May 2024