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Old 09-03-2020, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by HelenLCSW View Post
Schwartz was Jewish — it seems they want to separate themselves from that heritage
Harold Schwartz and his wife divorced during WW2. His wife remarried a named named Morse. She was afraid that if we lost the war that the Nazis would invade our country and kill all of the Jews so she legally changed the names of her children to their stepfather's name.

I don't believe that Harold's wife was Jewish but I can't find anything about that. Her name was Mary Louise Lee.

Gary Morse's actual name, by the way is Harold Gary Morse (nee Schwartz).
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