Stephen Anhalt

Stefan (Stephen) Anhalt was the older of two children born to Emanuel and Perl Anhalt in Kraków, Poland. He was born in 1931, and his younger sister Alwina (Alice) was born in 1938.

Their parents, Emanuel and Perl Anhalt came to the United States with both Alwina (name changed to Alice) and Stefan (Stephen) in 1949. Their war experience is unknown. The Anhalts were first mentioned in the Vineland Times Journal in 1951, when their father Emanuel was granted a permit to build a “chicken house” at 1448 West Garden Road. Emanuel and Perl remained in Vineland until at least 1972, when they received a permit to demolish a “house and 5 coops” at their (former?) address. Perl Anhalt passed away in 1988 in Florida. Emanuel died on February 18, 1998, also in Florida.

Alice and Steve both lived with their parents on the poultry farm on West Garden Road until the mid-1950s. Stephen, who was 20 in 1951, probably finished high school in New York, before the family moved to New Jersey. Alice graduated from Vineland High School in 1956. She married Gilbert Goldstein in 1958, and after that lived in Miami and Honduras as Alice Goldstein.

Stephen joined the Air Force in 1951 and in 1953 served a tour of duty as an airman third class, (A3C) in the Philippines, working as an air policeman.

Stephen Anhalt is mentioned in the Times Journal only a few times from 1951 to 1954. His parents’ obituaries in 1988 (Perl) and 1998 (Emmanuel) both note that he was living with his wife, June, in East Hills, NY (Nassau County, Long Island), but no other documentation has been found on Steve Anhalt.