Elaine Peizer

     Moses and Lena Rosenstock and their children, Frances, Walter and Hans saw the handwriting on the wall sooner than many others in Nazi Germany in 1936 and immigrated to the United States from Miltenberg, Germany. They first lived in Newark, New Jersey and contemplated buying a cattle farm in upstate New York, as that was their business in Germany. However, as family lore tells it, Lena decided that the Jewish community was too small in that remote area to continue to observe Judaism and it was very expensive. Instead, they did what many other German Jewish immigrants of that era did, they raised chickens and processed eggs to sell at stores in the New York metropolitan area. They called their business the Triple R Farm, the three R’s being Moses, Walter and Hans Rosenstock. Unfortunately, Moses passed away at age 61, shortly after the farm was established. This left his widow and the brothers Walter and Hans, to carry on in the late 1940s after the brothers returned from serving in the US Armed forces. The farm grew from a small homegrown enterprise to a midsize egg distribution company with 400,000 chickens in the 1980s that marketed to the egg industry in New Jersey.  Elaine Peizer is the daughter of Walter Rosenstock.

These photos are courtesy of Elaine Peizer.

 

Moses Rosenstock (Elaine’s paternal grandfather) on the farm. He was a cattle farmer in Miltenberg, Germany, before he emigrated to New Jersey.

Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.

circa 1946

 

 

Lena and Suse Rosenstock (Elaine’s paternal grandmother and mother) candling eggs.

Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.

circa 1951

 

 

Hans Rosenstock (Elaine’s uncle) collecting eggs on the poultry farm.

Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.

circa 1946

 

 

Walter Rosenstock (Elaine’s father) surrounded by the chickens on their poultry farm.

Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.

circa 1946

 

 

(LEFT) The chicken coops with the Rosenstock home on Georges Road shared by the brothers, Walter and Hans, and their families. Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. circa 1950

(Right) Triple R Farm egg processing plant, (Triple R stands for the three Rosenstocks — Moses (father) and Walter and Hans (sons)).

Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. circa 1960

 

 

Aerial view of the Rosenstock farm on Kingston Lane, including some of the chicken coops and new home for Walter’s family. Lena Rosenstock, now the widow of Moses Rosenstock, lived next door to Walter’s family home.

Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. approx 1955.

 

 

The photo was taken in Deans, New Jersey at the Jewish Cemetery on Deans Rhode Hall Road in 2019 where the Rosenstock Family and their relations are buried.

The stone marker states that the cemetery was acquired by the Jewish Farmers Community Center in 1942 and that the Jewish Farmers Community Center later became Shari Shalom and merged with Beth Shalom and the Jewish Community Center of North Brunswick in 1982, becoming Congregation B’nai Tikvah in 1983.