Vital Hasson, the Jew who worked for the Nazis, hunted down refugees and tore apart families in WWII Greece
- Written by Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Professor of History, Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director, Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles
Jewish youth on a sailboat in Salonika harbor, 1929,United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gabriel Albocher
I learned a lesson when conducting research for my recently published book, “Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century.” I had discovered the story of a young Jewish man forgotten to history...