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People named Herman Amberg

Below are 3 people with the first name Herman and the last name Amberg. Try the Amberg Family page if you can't find a particular Collaborative Biography in your family tree.

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Herman Amberg
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. With all hope of escape lost they put their guns to their heads and shot themselves to death.
Herman T Amberg of Glasco, Cloud County, KS was born on November 27, 1888, and died at age 104 years old on December 26, 1992.
Herman R Amberg of Vancouver, Clark County, WA was born on February 10, 1920, and died at age 86 years old on May 17, 2006.
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