Mathilda Beraha with her sister Sarah Saporta and brother-in-law Jim Beraha

This photo was taken in Loutraki after the war, in 1954.

My mother, Mathilda Beraha, nee Saporta, is on the right and my aunt Sarah Saporta is on the left of my uncle Jim Beraha, my father's brother. Jim was single and so was Sarah.

My father had three brothers. Morris, my father’s older brother, was born around 1894. Then there were Elias and Jim. Jim was older than Elias who was the youngest of them.

Jim was living in Athens along with Morris before the war began. Elias got away from Thessaloniki on a boat and my Grandmother Beraha left on the train just like we did.

We all left Thessaloniki and came down to Athens and she came along.

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