Nehoma Kamish

My grandmother had a hard life. One story I remember is as follows (and anyone correct me if I'm wrong):

She married Harry Kamish, who was a forester for a Romanian railroad. He used to go out and mark the trees that should be cut and those that should be saved. One time my grandmother went with him. They took the railroad there but when the work was done and they were on their way back, they learned that the train wouldn't stop at their town but at one miles and miles away. They decided their only choice was to jump off when it was going through Bendery. They did just that but my grandmother had been carrying twins and lost them both.

Then there were the pogroms. Then the Nazis. They applied to emigrate to the USA but it took years to get their visas. Their cousin in Chicago, Uncle Nathan Kamish, sponsored them and, in 1939, they traveled via steamship to NYC and then on to Chicago. Bad things happened on the ship but I wasn't told exactly what.

My Grandpa Harry didn't live very long in the USA; he died of high blood pressure. So Bubbie went to work as a seamstress. (She used to make my sister and I really cute matching outfits.) It was straight out of The Jungle, IIRC. She worked very hard until my parents made her retire and come live with us.

I wish I had spent more time with her asking her questions but I was just a self-oriented kid growing up and didn't understand the value of her experiences until it was too late.

I love you, Bubbie!
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Nehoma Teichman Kamish BIRTH 16 Jul 1900 Romania DEATH 21 Nov 1989 (aged 89) Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA BURIAL Greenwood Cemetery Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA PLOT 19B MEMORIAL ID 140316104 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 2 FLOWERS 0 Burial Plot: 19B in the Jewish Section of Greenwood Cemetery

Hebrew Rest III: 1933 (section of Greenwood Cemetery) (also called the Greenwood Jewish Section) (Cong. B'nai Zion). In 1933 a fourth Jewish cemetery was established by the Reform Temple B'nai Zion. This cemetery, known as "Hebrew Rest Number Three," in the beginning, is now commonly called "The Greenwood Jewish Section," for it is adjacent to Greenwood Cemetery, the second municipal non-sectarian cemetery established by the city of Shreveport. Greenwood Cemetery, proper, opened in 1892 when the older Oakland Cemetery, in continued use for at least fifty years, became filled. Temple B'nai Zion's historian is Eric J. Brock, Historic Preservation & Planning Consulting, P.O. Box 5877 Shreveport, LA 71135-5877 (318) 797-6765: ericjbrock@aol.com

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