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    Roumania

  • The Flee

    Watched father grow population under his rule, watched him poorly manage an entire country. Watched father massacre 11,000 peasents and work to cover his tracks. This causes him to flee the country alone north through the Carpathians from Brasav Roumania. He runs to Bratislava Slovakia, Trieste Croatia, down through the adriatic sea to Montpelier France, through to Bordeaux and departed from there to Elis Island. While on the Adriatic sea he changes his name, matching that of another passeng
  • France

    Leon Stein Moves from Roumania to Detroit Michigan. On 18 March a state of emergency was declared, then general mobilization, with 140,000 soldiers being recruited by 29 March. The Romanian Army began firing on the peasants; thousands of peasants perished and more than 10,000 were arrested. The number of victims is not really known since King Carol I of Romania ordered all documents pertaining to these events destroyed, so that the Liberal government could not be held accountable by an eventua
  • Detroit

    Moves to Detroit with promise of an automotive job and a large Jewish population
  • Anna Lelend

    Meets Anna Leland, A first generation French American residing in Detroit. Leon Stein meets her in a bar, smoky with cigerrettes as a watress
  • Family

    Has first child, a daughter.
  • Automotive Inustry

    Having moved to Detroit Leon gets a job on an assembly line makeing Model T's
  • Family

    Second Child, First Son.
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    Michigan Prohibition

    Michigan had placed into effect legislature that disallowed the consumption of alchahol.
  • Family

    Second son
  • The Purple Gang

    Led by Abe Bernstein, the Purple Gang was a mob of bootleggers and hijackers who operated out of Detroit, Michigan in the 1920s. This group of mostly young Jewish immigrants got its start in the Hasting Street neighborhood known as Paradise Valley in Detroit's Lower East Side. Many of the core members went to school together and as boys, became thieves and pickpockets in an area called the Eastern Market close to their school. As they got older, their crimes got bigger and they soon began to co
  • Joins Purple

    After losing his job at the Automotive factory due to a barbarous employee's actions he joins the purple gang in search for a better life
  • Leon Stein

    Contracts TB
  • Cleveland OH

    Having contracted TB, is moved from Detroit to brothers house in Cleveland OH
  • Leon Stein

    Is accepted into the JCRS facility.
  • Mrs Janie Wolf

    Anna is forced, with three children, to borrow money from a local gang. Being unable to fulfill reimburcment she flees to Atlanta GA with her two sons.
  • Anna Stein

    Both sons contract TB.
  • Mrs Janie Wolf

    Eldest son dies of TB
  • Mrs Janie Wolf

    Requests transfer to JCRS
  • Mrs Janie Wolf

    Janie Wolf arrives at JCRS with louis Wolf. Haveing not been accepted they stay in the Robinson building.
  • Leon Stein

    Leon, having worried much about his children is granted release to go back home.
  • Mrs Janie Wolf

    Accepted into JCRS, begins to search for her lost husband.
  • Louis Wolf

    Louis Wolf dies of TB in JCRS. Buried in Golden Hill Cemetary.
  • Leon Stein

    Leon arrives in Detroit, finding his daughter with an old family friend. Hearing storries of his wifes departure he decides to take his daughter with him to Wyoming.
  • Mrs Janie Wolf

    Having lost both sons, relinquishes her name so she can look for her husband
  • Anna Stein

    Discovers husbands records, being only two weeks late decides to go back to Detroit.
  • Anna Stein

    Arriving in Detroit, neglets her history with the city and ends up being taken by mafia.