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Amberg, Herman 'Hyman' d. November 3, 1926
Organized Crime Figure. Along with his brothers Louis "Pretty" and Joseph Amberg, they were the most feared gangsters in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York City, New York during the 1920s and 1930s. Hyman was arrested for the murder of a Brooklyn jeweler in 1926 and placed in the "Tombs" jail in Manhattan to await trial. On November 3, 1926, he and another prisoner (armed with guns) tried to escape from the jail. They got as far as the prison wall but were trapped by the guards...[Read More]
Cause of death: Suicide by gunshot
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 97, Row 6R, Grave 53, Gate 82/S
Amberg, Joseph b. 1892 d. September 30, 1935
Organized Crime Figure. He along with his brothers Louis "Pretty" and Hyman Amberg were the most feared gangsters in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York City, New York during the 1920s and 1930s On September 30,1935, Joseph Amberg and Morris Kessler (one of his henchmen) were lined-up against the wall of an auto repair garage in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn and shot to death by three gunmen of "Murder, Inc".
Cause of death: Shot to death
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 97, between North 8th and 9th Streets
Amberg, Louis 'Amberg' b. 1897 d. October 23, 1935
Organized Crime Figure. During the 1920s and 1930s he, along with his brother Joseph, were the most feared gangsters in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York City, New York. On October 23, 1935 (the same day gangster Dutch Schultz was murdered) Louis Amberg's body was found in a burning car in Brooklyn. He was killed with an ax and a shotgun blast, put in a car and set on fire. The murder contract was carried out by Abe Reles and his men in "Murder Inc".
Cause of death: Murdered
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 2, Row 12R, Grave 4
Davis (Davidoff), Al (Albert) 'Bummy' b. January 26, 1920 d. November 21, 1945
Professional Boxer. He was a popular welterweight boxer from Brooklyn, New York City, New York who started boxing professionally in 1937 and during his career he knocked out Champions Bob Montgomery and Tony Canzoneri. On the night of November 21, 1945 he was shot and killed when he tried to stop a holdup in a Brooklyn tavern.
Cause of death: Shot
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 14, Row 1, Section B, Grave 30
Edelman, Herb b. November 5, 1933 d. July 21, 1996
Actor. The 6'5", Emmy-nominated actor began his career by performing in the Broadway theater production of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park in 1963; a role he reprised when the play was adapted to television in 1967. Though appearing in numerous television sitcoms and movies throughout the 70s and 80s, Herbert Edelman is most remembered for his part as Stan Zbornack, Dorothy's ex-husband in the popular, comedic sitcom The Golden Girls, which ran from 1985 to 1992. Edelman also played memorable...[Read More] (Bio by: skatoolaki)
Cause of death: Emphysema
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Fine, Sidney Asher b. September 14, 1903 d. April 23, 1982
US Congressman. He was elected to represent New York's 22nd and 23rd Congressional Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1951 to 1956.
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Granach, Alexander b. April 18, 1893 d. March 14, 1945
Actor. Born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ukraine, he established himself as a leading figure of the flourishing theater and film industry of the Weimar-era in post-war Germany. He appeared in over 50 films over the coarse of his career such as "Nosferatu" (1922), "The Last Fort" (1929), "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939), "Joan of Paris" (1942) and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1943). He died at age 51 after attack of appendicitis. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Newman, Barnett b. January 29, 1905 d. July 4, 1970
One of the most profound and influential painters of the 20th century. Newman was a master of expansive spatial effects and richly evocative color, he pioneered an art that was both uncompromisingly abstract and powerfully emotive. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Newman was a lifelong New Yorker who studied at the Art Students League and the City College of New York. A close friend of the artists Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Jackson Pollock, Newman was at the...[Read More] (Bio by: MC)
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Schneerson, Menachem Mendel 'The Rebbe' b. April 14, 1902 d. June 12, 1994
Religious Leader. Born in what is today Mikolaiv, Ukraine, he was the son of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, the Chief Rabbi of Yekaterinoslav. His family belonged to the Chabad-Lubavitch Hassidic movement, which had originated in Russia in the late eighteenth century. At the age of sixteen he enrolled in Yekaterinoslav University to study mathematics. During this same time period, he continued to receive educational and religious instruction from his father, studying such subjects as Talmud...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Secunda, Sholom b. August 23, 1894 d. June 13, 1974
Songwriter, Composer. He spent a life in music, beginning as a boy cantor in his native Ukraine. He came to the United States in 1907 and in 1914 began studying at the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School) in New York City, New York, where he received extensive classical training. His output was prodigious, and included liturgical music, oratorios, music for string quartets, as well as scores and songs for the Yiddish theatre, with which he is strongly identified. Among the latter...[Read More] (Bio by: ronzoni)
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Shapiro, Jacob 'Gurrah' b. May 5, 1899 d. June 9, 1947
Organized Crime Figure. He was one of the most feared Labor Racketeers in New York City, New York, and was crime leader Lepke Buchalter's partner during the 1920s and 1930s. The nickname "Gurrah" dates back to his childhood when he tried to rob pushcarts in his Jewish neighborhood and the pushcart owners would shout "Gurra da here" (get out of here) at him. Shapiro died of natural causes in Sing-Sing prison.
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 20, Row 11L, Grave 3
Telvi, Abraham b. September 12, 1934 d. July 28, 1956
Organized Crime Figure. He was a small time criminal operating in New York, New York City when he was hired by Luchese Crime Family Capo John "Johnny Dio" Dioguardi to throw acid in the face of newspaper reporter Victor Riesel, who was at the time investigating labor racketeering in the garment district in which Dioguardi was a major power. The attack was carried out in the early morning hours of April 5, 1956 just after Riesel left Lindy's restaurant in midtown Manhattan. The acid thrown by...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill Heneage)
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 97, Roadside

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