Ambar Family Genealogy

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Rifka "Rita" Ambar[1, 2]

Female 1919 - 1989  (69 years)


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  • Name Rifka "Rita" Ambar 
    Born 28 Sep 1919  Cairo,,Al Q?hirah,Egypt Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Rita Ambar tomb stone in Lisbon, Portugal
    Rita Ambar tomb stone in Lisbon, Portugal
    Gender Female 
    Immigration Lisbon,,,Portugal Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Immigration 1959  Rio de Janeiro,,RJ,Brazil Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Name Henriette 
    Died 25 Jul 1989  Lisbon,,,Portugal Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Rita Ambar tomb stone in Lisbon, Portugal
    Rita Ambar tomb stone in Lisbon, Portugal
    _CRE 29 Mar 2014 
    Person ID 17161868  Ambar
    Last Modified 27 Dec 2015 

    Father Saleh Ambar,   b. 1886, Baghdad,,Baghd?d,Iraq Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 01 Sep 1948, Cairo,,Al Q?hirah,Egypt Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Mother Aimée Azoulai,   b. 10 Jun 1892, ?alw?n,,Al Q?hirah,Egypt Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jul 1969, Rio de Janeiro,,RJ,Brazil Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Married 1909  Cairo,,Al Q?hirah,Egypt Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Saleh and Aimée Ambar Wedding
    Saleh and Aimée Ambar Wedding
    Saleh and Aimée Ambar on Honeymoon in Upper Egypt
    Saleh and Aimée Ambar on Honeymoon in Upper Egypt
    _CRE 29 Mar 2014 
    Family ID 92794446  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 28 Sep 1919 - Cairo,,Al Q?hirah,Egypt Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsImmigration - - Lisbon,,,Portugal Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsImmigration - 1959 - Rio de Janeiro,,RJ,Brazil Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 25 Jul 1989 - Lisbon,,,Portugal Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Rita Ambar Portrait
    Rita Ambar Portrait
    Rita & Albert Flying
    Rita & Albert Flying
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    Rita Ambar Brazil Visa
    Rita Ambar Brazil Visa
    Rita Ambar tomb stone in Lisbon, Portugal
    Rita Ambar tomb stone in Lisbon, Portugal
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  • Notes 
    • In school, the nuns who educated Rita decided that Rita was not a serious enough name (despite the fact that there was a saint named Rita) and gave her the name Henriette Ambar. So during her school years, Rita was known as Henriette Ambar.

      In her youth, Rita was very involved with movements and together with friends she started an organization to distribute medicine to poorer members of the jewish neighborhoods of Cairo. When she was about 17, a doorman suspected Rita of being involved in a sionist movement based on the number of jewish people that visited her in their apartment. When the police arrived, they found Rita reading a book by English statesman D'Israeli and they aprehended her and put her in jail for the night. The next morning, Rita's mother, Aimée, was able to free Rita from jail by explaining to the policemen that Rita played tennis at the Heliopolis Club with a relation to the generals of Egypt. They quickly regretted improsning Rita for reading an English book and freed her.

  • Sources 
    1. [42396208] Josette Mizrahi Transcripts, Aimée Fisch (Reliability: 2).

    2. [9436540] Ambar/Azoulaï Family Tree, Gilbert Ambar (posterior corrections by unknown) (Reliability: 2).

    3. [18704952] PRIVATE (Reliability: 2).