Samuel Lerner

Tillie's father, Samuel Lerner , came from the same part of Russia (now Belarus) as his wife. As the only boy in a family of girls he had grown up with many privileges, but...

The FBI filed reports on TO and her family, with such data as her father 's alleged crimes against Tsarist Russia, and pro-Communist statements by her sixteen-year-old daughter .

There Sam Lerner worked as a labourer while his wife raised vegetables and chickens. This experiment, which brought much hardship and shunning by their Christian neighbours, ended in autumn of 1916. They returned to Omaha...