Sophie Hamburger

Sophie Hamburger is the older sister of Congresswoman Flora Hamburger of New York City. During the Great War, her boyfriend, Yossel Reisen, Sr., volunteered for the United States Army. She had sex with him before he was deployed on the Roanoke Front and conceived a son, Yossel Reisen, Jr.. The elder Yossel promised to marry her as soon as he could arrange a four-day furlough, but he was killed before that could happen. She gave birth to the son and named him after his late father.