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Updated
22 May 2011
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| Louis
(Leizer
Malzmann)
Myers
left
Bremen
for
New
York
in
November
1904.
In
1928,
he
visited
Labun
with
his
New
York
born
son,
Bernard.
They
took
several
photographs.
Unfortunately
we
do
not
know the names of most of the subjects. Use of these
photographs
is courtesy of Peter Myers (Bernard's son and Louis' grandson).
The photographs are in the archive at YIVO. |
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| Louis Myers and
friends. Louis is the gentleman with
the tie in the lower portion of the
photograph. We do not know who the others are (or if they are
family), but they obviously had our sense of humor. |
Louis Myers (1886-1938)
was born in Labun and arrived at Ellis Island via the Main on 25 Nov
1904. Like several relatives before and after him, he became a
glazier in
New York City. Later, he owned several cinema houses. He
married Dora Waxenberg (1887-1967), also from Labun, and had son,
Bernard
(1908-1993). Louis and Dora divorced and each remarried.
Louis married Yetta Hirschorn and had a daughter Renee Myers Adelstein
(1917-1945). Dora married another Labun native, Jacob Alperin
(1888-1960).
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| Labun group, probably on the
banks of the
Khomora River. The needlework on the boys' shirts is particularly
nice. |
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Labun
ladies. Possibly same two as in picture, above.
Beautiful
embroidery. |
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Labun
Group:
Louis
Myers
is
the
one in the tie.
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| Brickmaker
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