Abraham Saperstein

Trudeau Sanatorium

Born: c. 1901

Died:

Married: Lottie Simons (born c. 1906)

Children: Raymond, Ruth (adopted from Germany)

Dr. Abraham Saperstein, from Hempstead, Long Island, married Lottie Simons, a TB patient in Saranac Lake.

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A Report of a Case of Tuberculosis indicates that a Mr. Ab(e)raham Saperstein, age 21, was seen by Dr. Fred H. Heise in January 1922. His present address was Trudeau San, with former addresses at 6 Shepard Ave. in Saranac Lake and before that 307 N. Seward A., Auburn, NY. No record was found for Lottie Simons.

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New York Times, December 10, 2017, Metropolitan section, page 6

When Lottie Simons first met Abraham Saperstein, at a tuberculosis sanitarium in Saranac Lake, N.Y., he told her he was going to marry her. Which he did.

They lived on Long Island, where Abraham had a medical practice, and both were active members of the local temple, the country club and various charitable organizations.

In 1933, their son, Raymond, was born. Lottie, often in and out of the hospital struggling with TB, was told she couldn't bear more children. [Through her brother Bert, a U.S. soldier in Europe just after the war, the Sapersteins adopted a little girl, Bela Raphael, 3 1/2 years old, and changed her name to Ruth.]

External link:

• New York Times, December 7, 2017,  [the Forgotten War Orphan]