GRATZ – Ninety-two-year-old Donald L. Wiest beamed with pride as his grandson, Justin Wiest, won the first harness race Sunday on opening day of the 148th Gratz Fair. “We got that one,&… ...

She grew up visiting Gratz Park, named for Benjamin, her great-great-grandfather, as well as seeing street signs with her last name to honor her grandfather, an architect. Those landmarks were Gratz’s ...

The death of Mrs. Anna Gratz Clay at her home in Lexington, Ky., at the age of 82, closes a chapter of perhaps the most interesting Jewish family history in the annals of America.

Kapp Hartz and her family planned to go into hiding. She remembers her older cousin Jeannette telling her she had to change her name to Renee. “I asked why,” Kapp Hartz recalled. “She said, ‘Don’t ask ...