Retracing My Grandfather’s Journey: Kovno to Hamburg, Through Hull to America Filed Under Case Studies By Howard Wolinsky on December 1, 2009 This is the story of how my grandfather, born Hillel Sragan in 1871 in Keidan, Lithuania, transformed himself into Henry Wolinsky, a clothing merchant in Boston, the Goldene Medinah, in 1892. For 30 years I had sought answers to questions […]