Jewish Woman Sees Numbers Tattooed on Uncle’s Arm;

T. Belman.  Many thanks to Epoch Times for publishing this article pictures included.

on Hearing the Story Behind It, She’s Shocked

BY MICHAEL WING, EPOCH TIMES   March 2, 2021 

Epoch Times Photo
Joseph Sedacca and his family in a photo taken in the mid-80s in Queens, NY: (Top Row, Left to Right) Janice Clough, Joseph’s son David, Joseph Sedacca, his son Albert, Janice’s mother Ida (Sarah’s younger sister), and Joseph’s wife Sarah; (Bottom Left) Janice’s husband Ed; (Bottom Right) David’s then-wife Yvette (Courtesy of Janice Clough)

Joseph Sedacca’s own children could tell that their father wasn’t a normal man. Emotionally, they could see that there was something wrong with him.A Sephardic Jew born in Turkey in 1916, Joseph came to America after the second world war. He always seemed suspicious of others, as if threatened; he spoke very loudly and yelled often when his kids were young; his nieces and nephews, as children, were afraid of him.

Stories of Joseph were told around the dinner table over the years, of how he was in the concentration camps where Jews were sent to be exterminated by the Nazis. “Did he work in the ovens?” some pondered. It must have been horrifying, they knew.

Joseph’s niece Janice Clough (on his wife’s side) remembers that her uncle would wear long sleeves when he visited when she was young. Recalling a gathering years later, Joseph, wearing short sleeves, reached across the dinner table for matzah, and her young daughter saw the numbers “112594” tattooed on his forearm, and was curious about what it meant.

Thus began Janice’s inquiry into her uncle’s traumatic past.

PLEASE READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE ON EPOCH TIMES.

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