Holocaust Remembrance Day

That's my great grandfather, for whom I am named, Lt. William Eisman, Luftwaffe, ca 1916. We inherited his nose and lip (heh, chicks dig the bottom lip thank you, great-grandfather).

After the war he wrote his sister in Chicago about coming to America. She sponsored him and in 1919 William Eisman crossed the Atlantic and settled in Louisiana where he met my grandmother's mother.

Anyway, before the war Jews, like other Americans corresponded with relations back in Europe.

So far as we know we have no close relatives in Europe, certainly no Stroocks.