Collection is comprised of photographs, correspondence, and other documents created by Holocaust survivor Maurice Halfon Behar and his family from the 1920s to 2015. The photographs depict the Behar, Bally, and Halfon families from the 1920s to the 1950s. They show Maurice Behar as a child with his mother in France, and his parents' families in Istanbul, Turkey, and Biarritz, France. The documents and correspondence to and from the family of Maurice Halfon Behar regard reparations from the French and German governments for the displacement of the Halfon family during the German occupation of France.
Archival Collection
Archival Component
Oral history interview with Maurice Halfon Behar conducted by Barbara Tabach on March 14, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Behar tells his Holocaust survivor story of being protected in France before immigrating at age of nine to live with relatives in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York. Behar also talks about his big real estate deal before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada, and getting into the hotel security career.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Fortunee Behar holding Maurice Behar, circa 1939. Handwritten on back: Fortunee Maurice
Birth certificate (Extrait d'acte de naissance) for Maurice Behar
Photograph of the Behar family in Istanbul, July 30, 1952. Handwritten on back: center - Grandma Halfon, Flore Behar, Nina Yerokam, Mareo Behar, Sarah Yerokam, Wife of Ralph Halfon (Danny's mother), Ralph Halfon, Lisette Eskenazi, Marcel Eskenazi, Danny Halfon
Birth certificate (Extrait d'acte de naissance) for Maurice Behar
Photographs of the Behar, Bally and Halfon families, 1920s-1950s. Photographs show Maurice Behar as a child with his mother in France, and his parents' families in Istanbul, Turkey, and Biarritz, France.
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Photograph of Isaac Halfon, Mareo Behar and Dane Bally in Hendaye, Bas Pyrneese, 1932.