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Joseph Amberg

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Joseph Amberg Famous memorial

Birth
Chisinau (Kishinev), Chișinău Municipality, Moldova
Death
30 Sep 1935 (aged 41)
Brownsville, Kings County, New York, USA
Burial
Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.6862084, Longitude: -73.7371598
Plot
Block 97, between North 8th and 9th Streets, Gate 68, in row beginning with Harry Rosenbaum
Memorial ID
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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".
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".

Inscription

JOSEPH
AMBERG
DIED SEPT. 30,
1935
AGE 42
YRS
BROTHER
BELOVED
SON

Gravesite Details

Gate: 68/S OPP. 94Block: 97Row: 003RGrave: 1Society Name: I.J. MORRIS



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  • Added: Jan 29, 2000
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8340/joseph-amberg: accessed ), memorial page for Joseph Amberg (c.12 Oct 1893–30 Sep 1935), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8340, citing Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.