Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. She is the author and editor of ten books, including, most recently, Wartime North Africa: a Documentary History, 1934-1950 (co-edited by Aomar Boum, Stanford University Press, with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2022) and Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century (FSG/Macmillan, 2019).
Aomar Boum is Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. A historical anthropologist, Boum is author of many publications including the recent graphic novel with Nadjib Berber Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa (Stanford University Press, 2023).
Majdouline Boum-Mendoza, who illustrated the images in this article, is starting her 8 grade at Brentwood School, Los Angeles.
