Part I - #JosefNassy was an Afro-Jewish #artist + #Holocausttsurvivor born in 1904 in Surinam. His father was of Jewish descent + his mother Surinamese, of African descent. In 1928 Nassy received work in Europe for Warner Brothers but had to prove he was a US citizen. He pretended to be born in San Francisco prior to the 1899 earthquake, when records had been destroyed, + the ruse worked.

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