Harold Schiereman, 1916

A photo of Harold Schiereman. Going with the trend of naked babies in those days, this is my father with his mother, born in 1916, in the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ. Harold Schiereman (changed to Sherman eventually) moved with his family to Long Branch NJ on the NJ Shore. His mother Lillian and father Sam came from Eastern Europe in the early 1900's with a wave of many displaced Jews. Sam met my grandma, at a dress factory in Greenwich Village, NY. He bought her a ready to wear dress!
Pop Sam later worked cutting fur skins at Hollander furs in Newark and then Long Branch where the owners took off with all the immigrant's pensions.
My father grew up to be the first in the family to go to college-- Monmouth College in its infancy, and NYU later on. He fought in the Phillipines during WW2, and met my mother at the boardwalk in Asbury Park.
He died in 1987, with many mourning his high spirit and intellectual knowledge.