Joffe family papers

Szymon Joffe (later Sam Jaffe or Paul Jaffe) was born in Łódź, Poland, on July 6, 1920 to Julek (Juda) Joffe (b. 1889) and Malcia Goldberg Joffe (b. 1892). He attended high school in Łódź. On May 16, 1938, he sailed on the Gdynia-Ameryka ship the MS Piłsudski, arriving in New York on May 26th. He settled in St. Augustine, Florida, with relatives, Max and Julius Jaffe, and changed his name to Samuel (Sam) Jaffe. He went back to school and began to work in his relatives' grocery story. He married Helen Jaffe. Sam Jaffe joined the American military in 1942 and served as part of the occupation of Paris after the city was liberated in August 1944. Jaffe later began to go by the name Paul Jaffe. A talented artist, he designed the first insignia for NORAD. His parents were sent to the Łódź ghetto in 1939 and later transferred to Warsaw. They were deported to Treblinka in late 1941 and were murdered. Paul S. Jaffe died in January 2010.