This blog is dedicated to discovering pieces of information about the real life of Charles Harold Jordan, a man who once was the Executive vice-president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a man whose body was found floating in the Vltava river of Prague in the summer of 1967.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
2002 video of Wadi Abu Jamil
Charlie went to Beirut often. There was a lot that had to be done there. If I wanted to understand a little bit more, I had to go as well, the same route. I filmed some of what I saw. This is where the center of Jewish Life of Lebanon used to be. As far as I know, only the Magen Avraham synagogue stands today. The Salim Tarab school is gone.
And here is a picture of Charlie in the same location, in the early 1960s:
The family of Joseph Attié, Charlie's primary contact in Beirut, is long gone to South America. The others involved in Charlie's work there were murdered during the civil war, or abducted never to be seen again. Only Dan Lack passed away calmly in Switzerland.
The family of Joseph Attié, Charlie's primary contact in Beirut, is long gone to South America. The others involved in Charlie's work there were murdered during the civil war, or abducted never to be seen again. Only Dan Lack passed away calmly in Switzerland.
Dr. Attie's immediate family did not end up in Latin America. It was his cousins who emmigrated there.
ReplyDeleteHis family resettled in europe.