Useless story, but its such a small world: my grandmother's house in Lahore was originally owned by a Jewish family who sought refuge in Lahore during WWII.
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The original photo of the house
The wheels of fate that resulted in Hazel’s affiliation with Pakistan were moving on a long winding road even before she was born. “My parents were fleeing from Hitler and I will forever be grateful to Pakistan for giving us the refuge we needed back then.”
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Dr. Herman Selzer and Kate Selzer were a young couple studying medicine together when they had to leave Germany, where, after 1933, Jews were not allowed to study medicine.
They made their way to Italy, where they graduated from the University of Rome. But Europe was no safe place for Jews during that time and someone in passing mentioned the crown jewel of the British Empire — India. Dr. Herman Selzerwho had completed his studies, left Rome and took a ship, from Naples to Palestine where his parents and siblings had resettled after fleeing Europe, and then sailed to what was back then Ceylon [modern day Sri Lanka] from there. Through there they arrived in India.”
In India, Dr Herman soon found out getting work was easier said than done. “Here he was just another European doctor and they had more than enough of them. It wasn’t until he came to Lahore that he found a place to start a medical practice.”
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Hazel Selzer
In Lahore, the Selzers had their first daughter, naming her Hazel. A son, Michael, followed soon after.
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Hazel visited Lahore almost every year to see her birth city and her home in Pakistan, sadly she passed away last year. The Selzer family are very good friends of our family, SO WHEN SOME INDIAN and PRETEND Israeli's make assumptions on this forum about people, they should just STFU!
The old house as we call it, is still kept as it was when my grandmother purchased it:
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@LeGenD @PakFactor @Dalit
Nice, your family owns a part of history.
I have to say that the house is beautiful from the outside.