Sarah Kahn was born September 24, 1913, in New York. She lived in New York and New Jersey before moving to Mobile, Alabama, in the early 1930's. On September 3, 1934, she married Louis Einstein in New York. "Louie" Einstein was born on March 1, 1912 in New York. After the wedding, they moved to Mobile, where Sarah had been living with her family. The Einsteins were in the grocery business in Mobile for a number of years.

In 1997, they moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to be closer to their children and grandchildren.