Jeanne was my Mother's great aunt. Her brother Charles Jaffe was also a Yiddish journalist, another brother, Ben Zion a cantor. Before she went to NYC, aunt Jeanne lived with her brothers and sisters Tamara, and Elke in Cambridge MA. Their place of birth was Shututshin (Czucztin) in Lithuania. Your report of her academic studies in Hunter and Columbia does coincide with what I heard from my parents and grandparents. Her marriage to Mr Albert Shurtz was short, as her satisfying jounalistic wanderlust was not written in her Ktuba. Jaffe also reported from Nuremberg and also gave testimony on the DP camps. Jaffe was very generous with whatever income she had for her work: cousins who survived the Holocaust received the wherewithal to begin their lives in France and Israel.
Jeanne was my Mother's great aunt. Her brother Charles Jaffe was also a Yiddish journalist, another brother, Ben Zion a cantor. Before she went to NYC, aunt Jeanne lived with her brothers and sisters Tamara, and Elke in Cambridge MA. Their place of birth was Shututshin (Czucztin) in Lithuania. Your report of her academic studies in Hunter and Columbia does coincide with what I heard from my parents and grandparents. Her marriage to Mr Albert Shurtz was short, as her satisfying jounalistic wanderlust was not written in her Ktuba. Jaffe also reported from Nuremberg and also gave testimony on the DP camps. Jaffe was very generous with whatever income she had for her work: cousins who survived the Holocaust received the wherewithal to begin their lives in France and Israel.