sentences:  His alias "Silver", was a reference to his mother, whose maiden name was Kweksylber, which means Quicksilver.He was also known as Joe Liss, Joe Eligmann, James Smith, Joseph Schmidt, Jose Silva, Charlie Silver, Charles Greenbaum, Abraham Ramer and Ludwig.He was born in 1868 in Kielce, Poland into a Jewish family, as one of nine children of tailor and petty criminal, Ansel Lis.