Tracing my Parents’ Past Lives

Dr. Charles Moser: Tracing my Parents’ Past Lives • August 25, 2019

“My mother always said that Sunday babies are destined to be lucky. This was certainly true for me, born in the United States in late 1939 to Jewish immigrants. My parents escaped from Nazi Germany. Thanks to affidavits  from American cousins, my father arrived in New York 1936 and my mother followed in 1937.

They spoke frequently about their past lives, but as a child, I was more interested in baseball. Now, much later, researching their origins in Silesia and their ancestral roots in Province Posen, I’ve solved some riddles that arose from the tangle of Polish, Prussian and German history.”

Dr. Moser worked as a physician specializing in Endocrinology and Nuclear Medicine with Kaiser South San Francisco, and taught Endocrinology as an assistant clinical professor at UCSF. Upon retirement, he worked part-time at Kaiser Hospitals and now enjoys gardening, travel with Blair, his wife of 51 years, and visits with their two daughters and their families.

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Charlie and his granddaughter, Harper. Photo courtesy of Dr. Charles Moser