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During the summer
of 1909, David Pinski, his wife Adele (nee Koiffmann), and their
two sons Henry and Gabriel (not pictured here), left New York
City for a trip to Europe, here making a stop in Halensee,
Berlin, Germany.
Their younger son Gabriel ("Gabri") was six months old at the
time this photograph was taken.
Sadly, Gabri passed away from
polio in 1916 at the age of seven and one-half in Long Branch,
New Jersey. It was in Long Branch that the Pinskis spent many of
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The photograph
shown here was part of a postcard sent to Mordechai Spektor, who
at the time was in "Warschau, Russian Poland," i.e. what we know
today as Warszawa, Poland.
Mordechai Spektor
was David Pinski's editor during Pinski's time in Warszawa.
Hodel (Adele), the sister of Spektor's wife, became Pinski's
wife in 1897.
For a few years before emigrating to New York, in
December 1899, the Pinskis lived in Berlin where their first son
Henry (who was given the name Heinrich Heine) was born in 1898.
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