Fritzie continued to make clothes for our family thru the 1950’s. 

It could have been in the late 1940’s when there was still a baby in the family that Fritzie designed an apron/cape made of a quilted plastic material that went over the shoulder and was used for burping babies.   I think there was some attempt on my parent’s part to commercialize the idea, but it never took off. 

Mom’s sewing still continued during the ’50’s………..

Fritzie’s earlier dependence upon making a living by sewing, making clothes for her sisters, for other women and, of course, for herself and her children carried with it a stigma in later years, that she later rebelled against in her own way, wanting to have store bought clothes.   She often came back from a shopping trip, of any kind, during which she saw many articles of clothing she would have liked to buy, by saying, “I saved $500 today!”

In the 1950’s our family traveled to foreign countries……………………..
the summer of 1954 in Mexico and

in 1956-57, our father took us all to live in Vienna, Austria for a year and a half. His home town.

During our time in Austria, we also traveled to Israel to visit my father’s sister Annie and her family.

Then we were back in Evanston, IL through high school and onward…………..