#rozenfeld legacy

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And so Sarah got the news a few months after Ben...

#decades challenge #rozenfeld legacy #jacob berkowitz #i was really hoping this wouldn't happen... sigh

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Early photos of Samuel and Rachel with Jacob. How cute??

#decades challenge #rozenfeld legacy #technically theyre berkowitzes but meh #jacob berkowitz #samuel berkowitz #rachel berkowitz

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I was looking through some portraits of my founders and thought I'd repost some. How cute are they?

#rozenfeld legacy #esther rozenfeld #avram rozenfeld

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I managed to recreate my extended family tree on Sims Legacy Hub and added some portraits. Jacob's sister Adina and her husband Daniel.

#rozenfeld legacy #decades challenge #i'm also playing a bit cause im feeling better so new posts soon hopefully

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Nurses and VAD nurses during the War.

#decades challenge #rozenfeld legacy #perl is in the middle #if ur wondering

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Greta and Aaron got married on July 4th, 1915 at the courthouse. There was little fanfare around it; certainly not the big party they'd had at Sarah and Jacob's wedding. It didn't seem appropriate, with Avram, Ben and Jacob gone.

The bride and groom stand just a little apart, very formal and solemn. In reality, it was boiling hot in the city, and they had only a few minutes to pose before the sweat began to gather.

#decades challenge #rozenfeld legacy #aaron rozenfeld #greta levin

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As the months went by following Jacob's passing, the money he and Sarah had saved began to run out. With three children and another on the way (an unexpected and entirely unwelcome surprise), Sarah had no choice but to either find a way to live, or a way to 'take care of the problem', as her sister Perl put it bluntly.

"Don't be a fool," Perl chided her sister, when Sarah confessed the pregnancy to her. As children they had never spoken of such things, not even after Sarah had been married, for it was not really something you spoke to a younger sister about. But Perl was no child now, and in her work with the VAD she had seen things that ensured she would never experience the naivete of youth again. Sarah was not the first widow of war to find herself in such a situation, and she would not be the last.

Still, Sarah couldn't bring herself to let go of this last piece of Jacob, however irrational it was.

#decades challenge #ts4 #rozenfeld legacy #sarah rozenfeld

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So to recap (because it's been a while, sorry) Aaron married his wife Greta in mid-1915, and since then they've been working on fixing up the farm.

Oh, did I say they? I meant Greta, because Aaron's been busy studying to pass his exam to be a lawyer. He's never had much interest in keeping the family farm going, but Greta is a good wife from farmer stock and knows the value of hard work. So there she is cutting grass at 16 weeks pregnant while her husband is... somewhere, doing something.

(He's kind of a jerk, if you haven't figured it out yet).

Once their first child Esti (named for his mother) is born, Greta devotes herself to caring for the baby, and with Aaron receiving an offer of employment with his first law firm, farm chores begin to fall by the way side.

Fortunately, Sarah's eldest son Sam has no interest in continuing his education beyond primary school, and every interest in learning to manage the farm. So he moves in with Aaron and Greta and gets to work.

#ts4 #decades challenge #rozenfeld legacy #aaron rozenfeld #greta levin #samuel berkowitz

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10th July 1915.

Mr A. Rozenfeld, "Lone Oak" Farm, 1128 Old Mill Road, Henford-on-Bagley.

Dear sir, It is with deep regret that we write to notify you of the death of your son, Benjamin Rozenfeld, on the 2nd of June 1915. The cause of death was killed in action.

Any personal effects of the deceased, if found, will be addressed to the War Office and marked as 'Effects', and you will be notified by telegram upon their arrival.

I am Your obedient Servant,

[redacted]

#decades challenge #rozenfeld legacy #benjamin rozenfeld #1910s #rip ben 😩 #he looks so young in that portrait damn

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It wasn't long after they had the news of Ben, Aaron asked his girlfriend to marry him.

They both knew marriage was on the cards. Avram and Esther had discussed the match with Greta's parents years ago, and they had known each other since they were young. Once they finished school, they began to 'date' - as much as two young, unmarried people can date in the mid-1910s, that is to say, not much at all.

One night, on a (chaperoned) walk, Aaron finally popped the question. It didn't take much to convince Greta. Although Aaron was a few months shy of completing his degree, Greta knew he would provide for her, and he came from a good family. It wasn't 'love' per se, but that was just fine by her.

#decades challenge #rozenfeld legacy #aaron rozenfeld #greta levin #and you're gonna shave off that pornstache please aaron

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The last picture Sarah and Jacob took before he left for the front.

Bonus:

#decades challenge #rozenfeld legacy #sarah rozenfeld #jacob berkowitz

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The week after Benji and Jacob left for the front, Avram was found in his bed, so peaceful and still he almost looked asleep. He had never really recovered from the trauma of Esther's untimely death, and his oldest son going to war had been too much. His heart had given out while he slept, the doctor said.

The house was quiet after that, and it seemed a pall of misery clung to its walls. Golde was back and forth between home and Sarah's house, who was barely functional after Jacob left, and the children had been too much of a handful for her to deal with. Golde went without the usual protests.

In the meantime (when she was not up at dawn doing Ben's chores), Perl wandered the house from top to bottom in boredom and increasing agitation. She had no love for farm work, and Aaron barely spoke to her; he had delved headlong into his university studies by day, and spent nights out in town with his beau.

One day in town, Perl caught sight of a woman dressed in a nurse's uniform crossing the square, and the idea hit her with a jolt of excitement: she would sign up for the Volunteer Aid Detachment.

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Aaron just rolled his eyes the day Perl came downstairs in her VAD nurse uniform.

"Dad would have hit the roof if he knew you were involving yourself in the war effort," he said.

"I'm not supporting the war," Perl retorted, adjusting her head covering in the mirror. "Well, not really."

"I'm pretty sure helping out in a war hospital is supporting the war effort, sis."

"No it's not." Perl bit her lip. "Well, sort of. I can't help it. When I think of all those men fighting, getting hurt on the front lines—it's awful, the stories I've heard from my friends. You don't have to love the war to feel sorry for the men who get hurt."

"And they want us to sign up for it," Aaron grumbled. He had been given his first white feather that afternoon, and his girlfriend's reassurance had not quite taken the sting out of it.

"I think it's barbaric," Golde interjected from her place on the couch. "And you look like one of those goyische rabbis. What do they call them?"

"Nuns," Perl laughed, "and no-one asked you. Aren't you meant to be at Sarah's?"

Golde groaned. "Shmuel is vexing me, and Rachel attaches herself to my leg the entire time. I wouldn't mind if I only had to play with the baby. Must I go?"

"You could muck out the stalls," Aaron said. "Or milk the cow, or feed the animals, or harvest the potatoes..."

"Ughhh." Golde flicked her book closed and stood up with a sigh. "I'll go."

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The night that followed Jacob's talk with his wife's brothers and father brought him little sleep. He had not even spoken to his own father of his decision. With his father being of a similar age to Avram, and Jacob having heard the horrors of the Simzian War not forty years ago, he was keenly aware his father would not approve of leaving his wife and children to go to war.

Neither would Sarah.

“I know,” was the first thing she said when Jacob broached the subject the next morning. They had stepped out on the porch while the children were eating. “I know what you’re going to say. I do wish you would change your mind.”

“I don’t have a choice, love,” Jacob said gently.

“You do,” she replied angrily. “You do have a choice. You are needed here. I can barely handle Rachel and Sam on my own—not with another one on the way.”

“I spoke to your father.” Jacob patted her arm reassuringly. “You can move back to Lone Oak, let Perl and Golde help.”

It was pointless to argue; they both knew that he had made up his mind.

#decades challenge #rozenfeld legacy #dont ask me what the simzian war is lol i made it up

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Avram Rozenfeld, June 30 1870 - October 1 1914

Zichronah lebracha, may his memory be a blessing.

#decades challenge #avram rozenfeld #rozenfeld legacy

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How it started ^

How it’s going:

#decades challenge #rozenfeld legacy #sarah rozenfeld #jacob berkowitz #lookit that bump

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Anyway here are the wedding photos, how fucking cute are they?!

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