While armed troops gather in Minsk today due to a standoff in recent elections one can recall a son of Minsk who survived a much more harrowing event almost 100 years ago.
Meshel Docs
I put together the Times' story of his survival along with census records of Meshel to chart his life after the fire. Sometime after 1920 he moved from his East 15th Street address to Plainfield, New Jersey and became a baker. He was married to a woman named Fanny. He lived at 525 Somerset Street. Sometime around 1940 he moved to Newark. The Social Security Death index has him passing away in January of 1969 in Cape Canaveral Florida at the age of 80.
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This is a very interesting article-However-the Hyman Meshel you have tracked(who moved and became a baker) is not the Hyman Meshel in the NY Times article-He continued to work in the garment industry his entire life-
trying to get more info about Hyman, who was my husband's grandfather (did not continue in the garment industry: married, kept a candy shop, had one child)
trying to get more info about Hyman, who was my husband's grandfather (did not continue in the garment industry: married, kept a candy shop, had one child)
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