Lea (Lola Zegen) Weiselman was born in 1919 in Zamosc, Poland. After the Nazis occupied Poland, Lea and her family left Zamosc and moved to Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Ukraine. From there they went to the Novosibirsk region of Siberia, where they were interned in a labor camp. But they were able to leave there and moved to Kirgizstan, in Central Asia. After the war, Lea went to Linz and then to a displaced persons camp in Salzburg, Austria, where she met Nathan Weiselman. They were married there and then moved to a displaced persons camp in Bari, Italy, where their son, David, was born.
The Weiselman family was able to immigrate to the United States in 1951. Nathan was first employed as a tailor at the Popular Dry Goods Company in downtown El Paso, but, in 1953, they moved to Las Cruces to open their own tailor shop. He then opened a larger store, Nathan’s Men’s Wear and Tailors, in the early 1960s. He and Lea managed the business until they retired in 1983. They moved to California in 2006 to be near their son. Lea died on September 8, 2010.
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