(JTA) \u2014 Seth Meyers\u2019 newborn baby boy is named Axel Strahl Meyers. The Strahl in there might sound unusual, and that\u2019s because it\u2019s actually a surname \u2014 one that belonged to his wife\u2019s grandparents, who were both Holocaust survivors.<\/p>\n
In a touching segment on his NBC show \u201cLate Night with Seth Meyers\u201d Monday night, he explained the dramatic circumstances of Axel\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n
On their way to the hospital on Sunday, Meyers\u2019 wife, Alexi Ashe, who is Jewish, went into labor in the lobby of their apartment building as an Uber waited outside. Their midwife advised her to stay put, and Axel was quickly born in the lobby. Members of the New York City Fire Department came and wound up cutting the umbilical cord.<\/p>\n
Meyers \u2014 who has a Jewish grandfather and is often mistaken to be Jewish himself (even at one point by his own in-laws<\/a>) \u2014 also discussed the Strahls, who met each other at a hospital in Austria on the day they were liberated in World War II.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen someone is born, you just have such an appreciation for everyone in your lineage who lived so that you could have this moment,\u201d Meyers said. \u201cSo we\u2019re just so happy to give him this name for people who obviously had to work so hard to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Share](\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\")