Irwin and Barbara Wernick, [19K] Ida and Alex's children, grew up in Brooklyn, NY. They attended the neighborhood public schools. Most summers were spent avoiding the heat of New York City's streets in bungalow colonies, or "cooch alains," in New York State's "borsht belt" - often referred to as the Catskill Mountains. Sometimes, by working double shifts, Alex could arrange to have a few days off. He then journeyed by railroad to join his family in the "country."
Ida and Alex's first child, a son, Irwin, was born on August 12, 1927 at Bedford Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. The family lived at 102 Tapscott St. but moved several times during the next few years. Six years later, when their daughter, Barbara, was born at Liberty Maternity Hospital on July 1, 1933, they lived at 1700 Sterling Pl. Beginning in 1935 they rented a larger apartment with two bedrooms at 1656 Sterling Place where they remained until 1956.
Records of marriages among Jews show that on the 22 day of November,1891, Schmerko Wiernik, 18, son of Shemeryonu and Bryna Wiernik of Antopola, Russia, was wed to Rochla Leah (Rochel) Sopoznik, 20, daughter of Zacharia and Shayne Krayne Sopoznik of Drohiczynie, Russia.
