Sam Dressner & Joseph Meyer Dressner
April 17, 2009
Sometime in the early 1980s I was interested in learning more about my family and our Eastern European origins. I interviewed a couple of uncles and older cousins. Two of the cousins were older than my father Sam and called him uncle because My father had 11 other brother and sisters and he was the youngest one. Of the twelve in 2009 only one sister still lives from that generation.
My father, Sam, talked about a book that his father, Joseph Meyer Dressner, had written and that someone in the family had it and that there were secrets revealed in the book.
As I went to interview people, I asked them about the book and on one interview one of the cousins actually had the book in written in Yiddish in her drawer. She was not sure she wanted to give me the book and had not read it for a long time. In the end she entrusted me with having the books translated and distributed to family members who wanted to know of the life of our grandfather and great grand father.
Joseph Meyer Dressner was born in 1862 and died the year I was born 1948. Finding someone who could translate the book was no easy task and I did find a person at the Workmans Circle in NYC who was paid for the translation.
To get to America, he writes he “engaged an agent whose job it was to guide people to America.” In 1902 he left his parents and wrote ” My father and mother, may they rest in peace, accompanied me and shed bitter tears, although I consoled them and assured them that I didn’t plan to remain in America”. Well Grandfather Joseph did not return to Europe and I would like to relate more of his story telling how he got to America in another blog.
My hope is that my father Sam, has been reunited with his departed Father, Joseph M Dressner, his mother and all his passed brothers and sisters.
Ira Dressner
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