Torhovytsia, Targowica, Torgovitsa, Trovits, Targowitz, Targovica, Targoviste, Targowitza, Tarovitz, Truvitz—in eastern Ukraine, west of Kiev—is the ancestral home of the Hammer (Gomehr) family.
Cousin Billy in uniform, Grandpa Ben, Mom, Uncle Charlie, Grandma, Cousin Ethel and Aunt Ida Rabinowitz.
This is my great-grandfather Berel Hammer. He was a Hebrew teacher and a grocer in Newark, NJ. Like all the Hammers, he was from Torgovitsa, Ukraine.
Grandma Stelle and Grandpa Ben at the 10th Anniversary of a social club founded in Newark, NJ in 1915. Inset shows them sitting in the back left of photo.