Lester Melnick in the 1940 Census

This snapshot of Lester Melnick's life was captured by the 1940 U.S. Census.
When Lester Melnick was born about 1922, his father, Herman, was 24 and his mother, Ida, was 21. In 1940, he was 18 years old and lived in Bronx, New York, with his father, mother, and sibling.