The Leib Langsam Family

Some background email from the family can be found here.

Leib Langsam (1836-1908), was born in Jawornik, Poland. He married Beila Mehrkrebs (1841-1911 born Nowosielce near Lancut to Meir and Gittel). They had many known children. The older ones were born in Pruchnik, Poland. Sometime between 1874 and 1878 they moved to Tyczyn, Poland where the other children were born.

• Feige/Freide married Berl Wasserman (1869-1907) from Jawornik. They had 4 known children.
  • Hersch (1893 - 1893)
  • Gittel (1894 - 1895)
  • Chaya Sara married Markus Sauerhaft (1890 - ?) in 1920. He was the son of Moses and Chana from Bialobrzeg. No detail is known regarding any children they may have had.
  • Ephraim Fischel was born 1898. He married Libe Bezen, sister of Zelig Bezen. Libe and Zelig were the children of Hirsch Bezen from Kozlowa in Brzozow district.
• Laser (1872 - 1873) was born and died in Pruchnik.
• Efrojm Isaak (1874 - 1938) was born in Pruchnik. He sailed from the port of Hamburg and arrived in NYC aboard the Bulgaria on April 1, 1901. Efraim was listed as single, from the town of Jawornik. He traveled with Thomasz Stanowsky, also from Jawornik. They listed their uncle, Moses Pechter, residing at 75 Pitt Street, as their final destination. He married in 1904 and was living in Washington DC by the birth of their first child in 1905.
  • Ida/Ita (May 13, 1905 - May 5, 1999) was born in Washington DC. She married Aaron Chasen on Aug 10, 1935 (cert# 13071) in Brooklyn, NY. She passed away in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, and was laid to rest back in NY at the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont.
  • Lilyan (Sep 13, 1906 - Mar 1978) was born in the District of Columbia. Lilyan married Aaron Ellman to (1905 – 1983) and they had one known child. She passed away in Brooklyn, NY and is laid to rest in Mt Zion Cemetery.
    Florence Goodman
  • Louis (Dec 16, 1908 - Jun 22, 1992) was born in Washington, DC. He was married to Jennette Bander and they had two children. He passed away in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA.
    Elaine & Myra
  • Syde married Hyman Kupferberg and then Rabbi Nathan Zuber when she was widowed.
  • Moses/Morris was married to Molly.
  • Elsie
    married Osias/Oscar Einhorn and then someone named Koffer. Roland, Keren Alexander & Frederic
  • Grace married Nat Marsh.
  • Bertha married Leo Schimmel.
• Osyas/Szaye (1878 - 1939) was born in Tyczyn. He went by the surname of Mehrkrebs. married Chana Riwa Blau (1888 - ?), daughter of Samuel Blau and Ester Jahrmark from Pantalowice in 1906. They had 8 known children according to the records. At least two of the children were born in Kanczuga. Their daughter Laja went to NYC to Osias' sister-in-law Esther (wife of Frank) in 1939, after his brother passed away. Osias died in Jawornik in 1939.
  Berl, Laja, Sam, Rifka, Leib, Isak Marcus, Hersch & Meir Jacob (Manya)
• Ryfka (1881 - ) was born in Tyczyn.
• Beile (c1881 - 1942) lived until 1942. It is hard to understand how she had the same name as her mother. However, informants from the family believe that she married and had children. Sara Davidovich said the notes from her interview with her mother say that Beila perished in the Holocaust with a baby in her arms. It is not known who she married.
• Reisel (c1884 - 1942)
• Zyskiel (1885 - 1886) was born in Tyczyn and he died April 27, 1886.
• Rifka (Jun 5, 1886 - ?) married David Freifeld, who was a widower with children. Rifka and David had three known children, all of whom their mother's surname. There might also have been a son whose granddaughter Beila survived in Holland. Rifka, David and their children all got to Buenos Aires before the Holocaust. Some of the grandchildren are still there and some have gone to the US.
  Leib/Louis, Yoshe & Gitel/Catalina Bezem

Some background email from the family can be found here.

I would be very interested to hear from anyone with knowledge or an interest in the Miller family.

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Last updated 11/30/2016