There was a great article in the Winter 2004 issue of FGS Forum about a Russian Jewish family who emigrated to America in 1915 with two black South African girls, de facto adoptees of the family. The Family Zuser, as authors Valery Bazarov and Marian Smith call them, could not adopt Wilhelmina and Anna Jentjes according South African law. The article presents the original text of the mother's (Anna Zuser's) appearance before Board of Special Inquiry of the Bureau of Immigration explaining how her and her husband came to have custody of the children who looked nothing like her.
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