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Smyrna, 1910-1922. Entry 345 in the “Book of Certificates of the Community of Smyrna, 1915-1920” says that on July 27, 1919, my father...

Transylvania to Smyrna, 1860-1922. Through a series of unexpected events, Grandpa Leon’s postcard arrived at home in the US in 2005, more...

Buenos Aires, the 1950s. “A proper English school student needs to learn how to secure a necktie into a Windsor knot,” declared Dad the...

On the plane back to the US, 1976. I had plenty of time to reflect on Dad while on the plane back from Europe to the US. My visits to...

Trieste, Italy, 1976. My Aunt Carola and I were sitting at her kitchen table in Trieste talking about our family’s history when,...