LANG family of Chorostków

Lang cousins from Chorostków with Freiman cousins from Czortków
Left to Right: Morton Lang, Fancia Lang, Israel Freiman, Henia Lang,
Buzio Freiman and Dziunio (David) Freiman. 
Morton and David only survivors, living in Montreal.

Photo taken in Chorostków c. 1924 - 1925

At the center of the photo:
Morton Lang's grandmother Chaya Sarah
On the left of Chaya Sarah:
Morton Lang's parents: Joseph, Tema and Morton as an infant.
On the right of Chaya Sarah:
Morton Lang's uncle Yehoshua Lang, his wife Pesia and daughters Henia and Fancia....(a son Israel was born later.) None survived.

They were last of the immediate LANG family in Chorostków who had not managed to emigrate to Canada or USA.
Uncle Yehoshua Lang went to Warsaw to pick up his visa to leave with family to the USA when Germany invaded Poland in 1939.  He returned to Chorostków, occupied by USSR, but could not use the Polish visa and passport to go to USA. It is reported (not authenticated) that Pesia died of natural causes before Germans invaded Russia in 1941 and that their son may have left with the Russians as they retreated. None were ever heard from again.

Chaya Sarah Lang
Morton Lang's paternal grandmother

Joseph Lang
Morton Lang's father

Miriam Lang and Dr. Morris ACHTEL
Miriam Lang was Morton Lang's aunt (father's sister)
Dr. Morris Achtel : a dentist practicing in New York who died in the late 40s.  
Miriam Lang married Morris, an ordained Rabbi, in Chorostków shortly after WW1 and they lived in Tarnopol or Czortków until they emigrated to the USA (NY) in 1921. In NY Morris decided to study Dentistry and graduated from NYU in late 20s.

After Morris' death Miriam remarried Joseph PRESS, a Chorostkower and also widowed and they moved to Miami Beach. Joseph died several years later and  Miriam lived to the age 102 and died in Miami Beach c. 1997

Gravestone of Israel Hersh Lang in Chorostków cemetery with grandchildren.
Left to right: Henia,  Morton,  Fanie and Israel Lang.
Only Morton survived -all others, including gravestone, are gone.

Tema Lang and son Morton in Jaremcze,  a resort in the Tatre Mountains south of Chorostków where they spent a month in early '30s following a debilitating illness Morton suffered and from which he fully recovered.  

Photo of Tema and Morton Lang taken in winter.
Photo taken in early 1930.

The family reunited!
 Joseph, Tema and Morton Lang at Morton's Bar Mitzvah in 1936, one month after mother and son arrived in Canada.