Machpelah Cemetery (Queens)
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Machpelah Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located within the Cemetery Belt in Glendale, Queens, in New York City. It was established around 1855. In addition to managing the 6-acre cemetery, the former
Machpelah Cemetery, Glendale
Theodore Hardeen
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Ferenc Dezső Weisz, known as Theodore "Dash" Hardeen, was a Hungarian-American magician and escape artist who was the younger brother of Harry Houdini. Hardeen, who usually billed himself as the "brot
Machpelah Cemetery (Queens)
…train via the Cypress Hills station and the B13 New York City Bus. Machpelah Cemetery is the final resting place of magician Harry Houdini, his brother Theodore Hardeen, his mother, father, grandfather, four other brothers, and a sister. Houdini's widow Bess, who died of a heart attack in 1943, had wished to be buried…
Hardeen in 1905
Hardeen with his brother, Houdini (seated left) c. 1901
Hardeen's tombstone at the Houdini gravesite at Machpelah Cemetery in Queens. The inscription reads: "He went about doing good. We miss you, dear."