Aron, June 1988

 

Aron at Scott's UCLA graduation, June 1988

 

Aron at Furst Hardware Store, his first hardware store, Echo Park, CA.

 

Aron at Ports O'Call Village in San Pedro, CA., ca 1974

 

Aron, ca 2005

 

Aron in undated photo

 

Aron's relatives

Man is Aron's uncle Misha, his mother's brother. Woman may be his aunt Tosha or his first wife who was murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.


This may be either Misha as a toddler or Misha's son from his first wife; if this is Misha's son, then he probably died in the Holocaust.

Possibly Aron's aunt and uncle. Unclear of the relationship to Aron or location.

Rosa riding in car with unknown persons, unknown location

 

Los Angeles High School Orchestra. Aron is in the third row, third from right, holding his violin under his arm.

 

Aron's son Randy in 1965

 

Aron's son Scott in 1962

 

Rosa, Joseph, and Aron with an unknown woman, unknown location.

 

Rosh Hashanah "card" from Berlin with Aron and his parents.

 

Aron's draft card, which he kept his entire life.

 

Ike stamps found in Aron's wallet. (Aron was an avid stamp collector as a youth.)

 

Aron with two boys, unknown location.

 

Aron. Probably in Berlin, approx age 9.

 

Daily Mirror paper (11-10-1949) shows Joseph Semel waving his hat, top-right of lower photo. Refugees went to wrong port.

New Orleans paper announces the arrival of Jewish immigrants; Semel family is featured.

 

Joseph Semel, Aron's father, died in 1966 due to an errant overdose of Digitalis while in a convalescent hospital.

Rosa Semel, Aron's mother; died when he was 17 from leukemia.

Joseph's US Certificate of Naturalization

 

Rosa's US Certificate of Naturalization

 

Joseph's AEF papers