May 4, 2016
Fairfax County resident Michel Margosis, 87, was part of the Jewish diaspora of World War II. At age 14, he escaped Belgium and hid in Southern France, then Spain and Portugal, in a clandestine departure to America without his family. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee helped Margosis and more than 81,000 Jews leave Nazi-occupied Europe for safe passage from Lisbon aboard chartered ships.
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