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Reconstructing history

photo - One of the earliest letters, from June 1901, has Sam explaining how he got a job in North America, after he had been turned away for being Jewish. He told the next hiring office he was an Austrian Christian, and they believed him

Going through his storage unit in Vancouver, Paul Levine found a box that would let him reconstruct a piece of history nobody in the family could have told him. It contained more than 100 letters written between his great-grandparents, Sam…