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Unearth Your Jewish Ancestry

Though parts of history were lost in the Holocaust, you can still find out a lot about your family roots

My grandfather, Max Hasson, a Sephardic Jew from Monastir, Turkey, left his homeland in 1915 when he was 19 for a better life in America. He always told us that the Hasson family escaped the Holocaust. But I now have reason to believe that he was very wrong. … Back to Article

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