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Wife of Achille La Guardia. On their marriage certificate, Irene listed her religion as, "Israelita". He, albeit born Catholic, listed his religion as, "nessuna" (none).
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Mother of the former mayor of New York City, Fiorello "Henry" LaGuardia.
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Achille La Guardia met, and was married to Irene Cohen Luzzatto, on the 3rd of June, 1880. She was a descendant of a prestigious Italian, Sephardic Jewish family. Theirs was a civil marriage, officiated by the Mayor of Trieste. On the day of the wedding, the couple left for the United States. New York is where their first two children were born: Gemma (in 1881), and Fiorello (in 1882). She was a Jewish-born woman from Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; his maternal grandmother Fiorina Luzzatto Coen was a Luzzatto, a member of the prestigious Italian-Jewish family of scholars, kabbalists, and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto.
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CHILDREN:
i. Gemma La Guardia, b.24-Apr-1881 NYC., NY., d.01-Nov-1962 NY., m.1908 Budapest, Hungary to: Herman Gluck, a Hungarian Jew. (She was arrested in Europe during WW-II, with her husband on 07-Jun-1944 by the Nazis. He perished in the Nazi camp at, Mauthausen).
ii. Fiorello Enrico La Guardia, b.11-Dec-1882, NYC, NY., d.20-Sep-1947, Bronx, NY. He became a U.S. Congressman, and the 99th mayor of NYC.
iii. Richard La Guardia, b.1887 SD., d.1927 NY. (of a heart attack).
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Nota bene: the surname, "La Guardia" became Americanized to, "Laguardia".
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Wife of Achille La Guardia. On their marriage certificate, Irene listed her religion as, "Israelita". He, albeit born Catholic, listed his religion as, "nessuna" (none).
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Mother of the former mayor of New York City, Fiorello "Henry" LaGuardia.
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Achille La Guardia met, and was married to Irene Cohen Luzzatto, on the 3rd of June, 1880. She was a descendant of a prestigious Italian, Sephardic Jewish family. Theirs was a civil marriage, officiated by the Mayor of Trieste. On the day of the wedding, the couple left for the United States. New York is where their first two children were born: Gemma (in 1881), and Fiorello (in 1882). She was a Jewish-born woman from Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; his maternal grandmother Fiorina Luzzatto Coen was a Luzzatto, a member of the prestigious Italian-Jewish family of scholars, kabbalists, and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto.
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CHILDREN:
i. Gemma La Guardia, b.24-Apr-1881 NYC., NY., d.01-Nov-1962 NY., m.1908 Budapest, Hungary to: Herman Gluck, a Hungarian Jew. (She was arrested in Europe during WW-II, with her husband on 07-Jun-1944 by the Nazis. He perished in the Nazi camp at, Mauthausen).
ii. Fiorello Enrico La Guardia, b.11-Dec-1882, NYC, NY., d.20-Sep-1947, Bronx, NY. He became a U.S. Congressman, and the 99th mayor of NYC.
iii. Richard La Guardia, b.1887 SD., d.1927 NY. (of a heart attack).
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Nota bene: the surname, "La Guardia" became Americanized to, "Laguardia".
Gravesite Details
Suggestion: "Buried in Jewish Cemetery of Budapest, according to historian https://www.istrianet.org/istria/non-istrians/la_guardia/achille/valente_bio-ita.htm"
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