When Houdini was eleven, his father died and he was forced to go to work to support his family. When he was four, his family immigrated to America and settled in Appleton, Wisconsin. Harry Houdini was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1874. At age twelve he began work as a helper on a trapeze act called “The Great Outdoors.” When the act disbanded he found employment with local Magicians such as Walter Price who owned Price’s Museum on The Bowery where Harry first saw a show by the Great Jean Robert-Houdin. As a young boy, Ehrich Weiss took several jobs earning money for his family. The family lived in Appleton from 1878 until 1887 when they moved to New York City’s Lower East Side. The family changed their name to “The Weiss Family” in America. Weisz immigrated with his family to the United States on July 3, 1878, landing at Ellis Island in New York City. His parents were Mayer Samuel Weisz and Cecilia Steiner. He later claimed to have been born in Appleton, Wisconsin on April 6 of that year to avoid anti-German sentiment in the United States during World War I. Houdini was born as Erik Weisz, on March 24, 1874, in Budapest, Hungary. The family changed their surname from “Weisz” to “Houdini” on arrival in the United States.
All the children emigrated to the United States in 1878 on the SS Fresia with their mother and father. Weisz (anglicized to Henry or Harry Day) and Gladys Hope Weisz (1878–1963). Besides Erik (later Harry), the children weredash Cecilia, Leopold, William Recorde (died young), Nathan Peter Friedland Weisz (died young), Herman M. Houdini was one of seven children, five of whom survived infancy. His parents were Mayer Samuel Weisz (1829–1892) and his mother was Cecelia Steiner (1841–1913). Houdini was born as Erik Weisz on March 24, 1874, in Budapest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Jewish family. As a child he lived in Wisconsin with his mother’s sisters for several years while his father studied in Galicia. His parents were Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weisz and his second wife, Cecilia Steiner Weisz. Harry Houdini was born Erik Weisz on March 24, 1874, in Buda, Hungary.
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