The collection consists of family photographs and records of the Finci-Musafia family documenting their life in pre-WWII Sarajevo, their experience in the Holocaust in Italy and Switzerland, their emigration to the United States, and their life in Los Angeles.

Joseph Finci was born December 9, 1895 and Lenka Finci (neé Musafia) was born December 17, 1904, both in Sarajevo. They were members of the Sephardic community in Sarajevo. As Sephardic Jews, they traced their family line back to those who were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula by Spanish royal decree in 1492. Joseph and Lenka married in Sarajevo on January 29, 1928. The following year, Al was born on May 21, 1929. His sister, Erna, was born on January 20, 1934. Descended from a long line of Sephardic rabbis, Al's family was religiously observant.

1 linear feet (1 box, 1 half box, 1 flat box)

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