Members of the Amarillo family pose outside their home in Salonika. Front, from left to right, are Tillie Amarillo and Sarika Yahiel. Seated behind them are their mothers Louisa Bourla Amarillo and Regina Amarillo Yahiel. Standing are Saul Amarillo, Isaccino Yahiel, and Isaac Yahiel. Salonika, Greece, between 1930 and 1939.
Item ViewBride and groom Laura Uziel and Saul Amarillo (center) pose with their extended families during their wedding. Salonika, Greece, 1938.
Item ViewGabriela, Gavra, Mosa, and Irena Mandil celebrate Gavra’s fourth birthday in Novi Sad on September 6, 1940.
Mosa was a professional photographer with a successful studio when World War II began in 1939. He and his wife Gabriela had two young children at the time—their son Gavra was born in 1936, and their daughter Irena was born in 1938. Mosa often used photographs of the two children to advertise the family’s business. This image provides a glimpse into the life of the Mandil family before the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941.
Item ViewMr. Mandil and his son Gavra, Yugoslav Jews, while in hiding. The Mandil family escaped to Albania in 1942. After the German occupation in 1943, Mandil's Albanian apprentice hid the family, all of whom survived. Albania, between 1942 and 1945.
Item ViewAn interior view of the Sephardic synagogue on Luetzowstrasse. Berlin, Germany, before November 1938.
Item ViewSephardic synagogue destroyed during the January 21-23 Iron Guard pogrom. Bucharest, Romania, January 1941.
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