Having been abandoned, Pearl and Sarah apparently lived with various relatives for awhile and then on their own.\u00a0 Pearl\u2019s brothers must have helped support her, since she did not seem to have a steady occupation.\u00a0 Sarah went through elementary Sarah went to Chicago in 1937 to attend the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.\u00a0 She was enrolled for 3 semesters, but did not finish her degree.\u00a0 This time seemed to be a pretty positive one for Sarah: she had friends and saw cousins, and liked her classes.\u00a0 She told her son that she had lived just down the street from the site of the infamous Saint Valentine\u2019s Day Massacre<\/a> that happened in 1929, which he was impressed by.\u00a0 She must also have met her husband-to-be before the end of this time, since she was enrolled through the fall semester of 1938 and they married in March of 1939.\u00a0 Sarah would never talk about how or when or where she met Iz Greenberg.\u00a0 Another mystery but there doesn\u2019t seem to have been much misfortune during her time in Chicago.<\/p>\n The final notable misfortune was the result of the McCarthy Era in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 Her husband, Iz Greenberg, was a lawyer with the National Labor Relations Board but came from a family of socialist agitators.\u00a0 Family rumor is that he traveled as a young man, organizing various labor groups.\u00a0 Because of this history, Iz came to the attention of the McCarthy investigation and had to leave the Washington job unexpectedly and precipitously.\u00a0 The young family had just purchased My mother-in-law, Sarah Greenberg, might easily be said to have lived a life of misfortunes, starting with her father\u2019s desertion of the family when she was an infant and ending with her husband\u2019s losing his federal job in the McCarthy …<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sarah-hs-120x150.jpg\")
<\/a>and high school and into college with little record of her life and few family stories.\u00a0 She did tell her children that she and her mother were very poor during her childhood.\u00a0 She started at the University of Wisconsin Extension in Milwaukee and worked while she was in school going part-time, but was able to go to the University of Wisconsin at Madison to finish her degree and she graduated with a B.A. in 1932.\u00a0 Sarah was helped financially by two of her uncles to be able to go to college and later to graduate school in Chicago.\u00a0 At some point, her mother was hospitalized for mental disorder for some period of time, but nothing more is known about this so far (not how old Sarah was, or what the problem was, or how long her mother was there).\u00a0 Another misfortune and mystery at the same time.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sarah-at-work-240x300.jpg\")
<\/a>their first house, and could not keep it.\u00a0 They ended up moving back to New York, living for a period of time with Sarah\u2019s sister in law and her family in Rochester while Iz figured out what he was going to do for work and where.\u00a0 Of course, this was a major misfortune for him as well as for Sarah.\u00a0 Sarah seems to have dealt with all of this by not talking about much of the experiences she’d had, which contributed to the mysteries about her life.\u00a0 Like many others, she preferred to focus on the present and on the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"