Ruchel and Menachem Mendel Eiderman arrived at Ellis Island on July 31, 1905. They had sailed from Glasgow, Scotland, but their journey began in Pereyaslav.
He had been born in Berezan, 16 miles from Pereyaslav, in 1878. She had been born Ruchel Bernshteyn in Boryspil, 23 miles from Berezan, in 1881. But they had lived in Pereyaslav for many years, and, like several of their siblings and cousins, left Pereyaslav shortly after the turn of the 20th century and came to America. Ruchel, age 24, was hospitalized on Ellis Island for five days before she was released, their documents were stamped, and they were admitted to America. Menachem Mendel, age 27, had $3.00 in his pocket. Shortly thereafter they arrived at the train station in Milwaukee where Ruchel’s older brother Avram Mordechai Bernshteyn greeted them. By then he was Max A. Bernstein, having immigrated from Pereyaslav a year earlier. Max Bernstein took his sister and her husband to an apartment to drop their bags and catch their breath. “This is YOUR apartment?” Ruchel asked, amazed her brother lived amidst such luxury. “No,” he said. “This is YOUR apartment.” Menachem Mendel and Ruchel Eiderman became Max and Rachel Aderman and began a life in America. They had three children, two girls, then a son, bought a house in one of Milwaukee's Jewish neighborhoods near North Avenue, and raised their American family.
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They
helped Rachel’s sister, Feige, when
she arrived from Pereyaslav in 1911
with her five children, reuniting with
her husband (yet another Max) who’d
come to Milwaukee in 1910. Back to Home
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