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-The naturalization document for Meyer Langerman says his former name
+https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YL_SsmeeNNe5ZqgQuI6vuqWcqZpCC29o/view?usp=sharing The
-was Meier Leib Langermann, that he was born 1887 February 7 in
+naturalization document for Meyer Langerman says his former name was
-Hussakow, Poland, that he married Frederica (born Friederike Passweg)
+Meier Leib Langermann, that he was born 1887 February 7 in Hussakow,
-on 1929 January 2 in Vienna, that she was born 1910 December 7 in
+Poland, that he married Frederica (born Friederike Passweg) on 1929
-Rymanow, Poland ('I had just, just turned 18.')  They lived at 720
+January 2 in Vienna, that she was born 1910 December 7 in Rymanow,
-Fort Washington Avenue.  He came from Montreal, entered at Rouses
+Poland ('I had just, just turned 18.')  They lived at 720 Fort
-Point, NY on the D&H RR (Delaware & Hudson Railroad, I think) on 1941
+Washington Avenue.  He came from Montreal, entered at Rouses Point, NY
-March 12.
+on the D&H RR (Delaware & Hudson Railroad, I think) on 1941 March 12.
+https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uGt9L-yNWVb2oOojIEraDQkI-JzeBA0-/view?usp=sharing
 Meier Langermann arrived on the 'Bremen' for the first time 1938
 October 23.  Note that in the nationality column, someone has written
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 Spiegel, husband of Joe's mother's sister.
-The arrival document for the 'Normandie' of 1939 January 28 lists
-Meier Langermann and, just after him, Benzion (likely Ben Zion)
+https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yKRMeuawhRklXbWyvNckgujaxB8HF71z/view?usp=sharing The
-Passweg (Joe's mother's brother).
+arrival document for the 'Normandie' of 1939 January 28 lists
+Meier Langermann and, just after him, Benzion Passweg (Joe's mother's
+brother).
+After multiple attempts Congress passed a special bill to admit the Langermans; FDR vetoed it the first time.  He signed it after a second passage.
+Eventually he got his wife and Joe, her mother, brother, sister, and their families to America.  (Her father, Solomon, had died in 1936.)
 Meyer Langerman established the Langerman Shoe Company in the US.  (He
-had been a shoe manufacturer in Europe.)  A search of Google turned up
+had been a shoe manufacturer in Europe.)  Ellen Oppenheimer's memoir,
-this mention in Ellen Oppenheimer's memoir, 'Flight to Freedom':
+<i>Flight to Freedom</i> mentions it:
+<blockquote> 'During the Shiva someone had told her about a job at a shoe factory in Brooklyn where she would be able to earn more money than doing housework by doing piece work; also the hours would be more regular.  She asked the person about it who made a phone call and was told to have Grete report to the factory in Brooklyn.  On Tuesday morning, February 23rd, at 6:00 a.m., she took the long (2 hours) subway ride to Brooklyn.  She had a piece of paper in her hand with printed directions on how to get there.  First she took the AA train to 145th Street, changed to the A train to 14th Street, to the Canarsie line to Lorimer Street and walked the three blocks, to start her job at Langerman Shoe Corporation, weaving the upper part of ladies' summer sandals.  It was piece work and the more you did, the more you got paid.  She worked long and hard hours, now facing a future that she had never imagined, but when at the end of the week  she got her paycheck, she felt as if her life might just get better.  She was able to get groceries and pay the essential bills.'
-<blockquote>
-'During the Shiva someone had told her about a job at a shoe factory
-in Brooklyn where she would be able to earn more money than doing
-housework by doing piece work; also the hours would be more regular.
-She asked the person about it who made a phone call and was told to
-have Grete report to the factory in Brooklyn.  On Tuesday morning,
-February 23rd, at 6:00 a.m., she took the long (2 hours) subway ride
-to Brooklyn.  She had a piece of paper in her hand with printed
-directions on how to get there.  First she took the AA train to 145th
-Street, changed to the A train to 14th Street, to the Canarsie line to
-Lorimer Street and walked the three blocks, to start her job at
-Langerman Shoe Corporation, weaving the upper part of ladies' summer
-sandals.  It was piece work and the more you did, the more you got
-paid.  She worked long and hard hours, now facing a future that she
-had never imagined, but when at the end of the week she got her
-paycheck, she felt as if her life might just get better.
-She was able to get groceries and pay the essential bills.'
 </blockquote>
-According to NYC's records, Meyer Langerman died on 1943 October 8 in
+http://www.italiangen.org/NYCDeathresults.asp?kind=exact&Esurname=langerman&Efirst=meyer&StartYear=1943&EndYear=1943&County=Manhattan&B1=Submit Meyer Langerman died on 1943 October 8 in Manhattan; he was 56.  His father was Nachum Langerman, his mother was
-Manhattan; he was 56.  His father was Nachum Langerman, his mother was
 Batscheva Laugonauer, his wife was Frederica Langerman.