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Suzanne Langsdorf

ChildChicago, IL

Family Member of Manhattan Project Veteran
Suzanne Langsdorf Listen to Suzanne Langsdorf’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Suzanne Martyl Langsdorf was born in 1945 to her parents, American physicist Alexander Langsdorf and artist Martyl Langsdorf.  She grew up in Chicago and the surrounding areas. Suzanne married Gene Hasha in 1974, and they had one son together, Alexander E. Hasha. 

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