NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Audio interview conducted on May 23, 2022 by Ariane Loeb. Collected through the Brooklyn family Jewish History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded by the David Berg Foundation.
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TitleMatt and David Engel family. Studio photograph of young woman in a garden setting wearing a large sun hat.
Biographical NoteGrandfather of Matt Engel, Milton (Menashe) Hirsch Engel traveled from Austro-Hungary to the US with his father in 1923. Hirsch was returned from Ellis Island to Poland. His son, Milton never saw him again. Rose (Landskroner) Engel, mother of Milton, came later with her other children: Sayfra (born 1915), Frieda (born 1914), Sam (born 1918) and Abe (born 1922). Milton settled in Brooklyn and started a home painting business. He married Tillie and they had three sons, in birth order: Arnold, Burton and David. The family lived in Brownsville, then East New York. Inspired by uncle Philip Friedman, who owned a farm called Fair View outside Woodbourne, New York, Millie and Milton moved upstate to a farm in Liberty, New York. After a year they sold the farm and returned to Brooklyn.