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.
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Photograph of Maurice Behar a bicycle, August 27, 1942. Handwritten on reverse (in French): Petit souvenir d'une photo que nous avais fait agrandir a l'occasion de ses 4 ans - Maurice, Pour famille Ajuelo, Le 27/8/42
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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 Fortunee Halfon, Rose Ajuelo and Marie Bally in Istanbul, approximately 1922.
Photograph of Fortunee Halfon and Maise Salti in Biarritz in front of Bally's shop, 1932
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