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With my father Avram Albert Anjel, in the garden of the American Constantinople College (Arnavutköy Amerikan Kiz Koleji), the day of graduation for my older sister Mireille’s (Mirey) daughter Emel (Pupu) Güzelbahar. My second older sister Mireille (Meri) was born in 1914. After finishing Haydarpasha Jewish highschool's junior high department, she continued in the American Constantinople College (American Girls' Highschool) and was married in the Zülfaris Synagogue to Robert Güzelbahar in 1933, she had two daughters. Ezel who we call Dolly, and Emel who we call Pupu. Both of them are graduates of the American College like their mother. Emel(Pupu) married a doctor, Paul Glicsman inNew York. Her husband died, she continues her life in New York. Currently she is the mother of three daughters. Mireille's husband Robert Güzelbahar died in New York in 1965. Mireille later married Axel Axelrad in 1968 and currently lives in New York..

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