Posts Tagged ‘Hough District’
Diving Into Cleveland’s Hough District History In The 1960s
1960s Hough District, Cleveland My great-grandparents came from Ukraine to the U.S. and settled in the Hough area (pronounced Huff), where my grandfather and father grew up among other refugees to escape antisemitism and persecution around 1900. My father didn’t leave the area until 1954. From the late 1800s to the pre-WW II era of…
Read MoreThe Cleveland I Knew Forever Changed: The Aftermath Of The Hough Riots
The Hough District My great-grandparents escaped from an oppressive and toxic world of hatred in Tetyiv, Ukraine, a city that at the time (1890s) was 95% Jewish but would see thousands murdered, decades before the Nazis came to town. Fortunately for me and thousands of others, there was a mass movement of people from that…
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