The Beraha family

This photo was taken in Thessaloniki in 1923.

Here you can see members of the Beraha family. My parents, Carolos and Mathilda, are on the left and in the middle is my grandmother Mazaltov Beraha, nee Arditi.

The little boy is Izo Tazartes the older cousin I had; he was about three or four years older than me. He was the son of my father’s sister Lukia, who is also in the picture, with her husband, Levi, and then there’s my dad’s other sister, Rebecca.

My father’s sisters were named Alegra, Lukia and little Rebecca. They were married: Alegra to Josef Brudo from Thessaloniki, Lukia to Levi Tazartes and Rebecca to a man called Cohen. Even though I have a picture of him, I don’t know his first name.

Alegra, her husband and daughter, who now lives in the USA, and Zakinos, the son of another sister, were receiving some sort of help from Carolos.

The structure of the family then was such that they didn’t let anyone fall by the wayside; my father would take charge after any misfortune.

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