Ibrahim Saleh "Albert" Ambar[1, 2]
1912 - 1969 (57 years)-
Name Ibrahim Saleh "Albert" Ambar Born 29 Feb 1912 Cairo,,Al Q?hirah,Egypt 
Gender Male Immigration 1957 Rio de Janeiro,,RJ,Brazil Name Albert Died 10 Aug 1969 Rio de Janeiro,,RJ,Brazil - Cemitério Comunal Israelita do Caju (?)
_CRE 30 Mar 2014 Person ID 5144816 Ambar Last Modified 2 Jan 2016
Father Saleh Ambar, b. 1886, Baghdad,,Baghd?d,Iraq , d. 01 Sep 1948, Cairo,,Al Q?hirah,Egypt (Age 62 years) Mother Aimée Azoulai, b. 10 Jun 1892, ?alw?n,,Al Q?hirah,Egypt , d. 16 Jul 1969, Rio de Janeiro,,RJ,Brazil (Age 77 years) Married 1909 Cairo,,Al Q?hirah,Egypt [3] 
Saleh and Aimée Ambar Wedding 
Saleh and Aimée Ambar on Honeymoon in Upper Egypt _CRE 29 Mar 2014 Family ID 92794446 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Ines Moshe, b. 08 Oct 1924, Cairo,,Al Q?hirah,Egypt , d. 17 Apr 2007, Rio de Janeiro,,RJ,Brazil (Age 82 years) _CRE 30 Mar 2014 Children 1. Joseph Ambar, b. 13 Jan 1949, Cairo,,Al Q?hirah,Egypt , d. 02 Feb 2019 (Age 70 years)2. Living Last Modified 28 Dec 2015 Family ID 8297976 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Born - 29 Feb 1912 - Cairo,,Al Q?hirah,Egypt 
Immigration - 1957 - Rio de Janeiro,,RJ,Brazil Died - 10 Aug 1969 - Rio de Janeiro,,RJ,Brazil = Link to Google Earth
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Photos 
Albert Ambar 
Rita & Albert Flying 
Saleh, Aimée, Albert, Josette, maybe Fortunée Ambar? Who are the others? 
Albert Gliding 
Albert Ambar and Lilianne Ambar Flying 
Albert's Pilot License 1936 
Albert's first flights logged 
Albert's pilot log book page 2 
Albert - probably with an instructor 
Albert solo - 2 
Albert solo 1 
Albert solo 3 
Albert solo in the pilot seat 
Albert with pilot friends 
Liliane and Fortunee
Liliane and Fortunee at the Almaza Airport in Cairo, where cousin "Albert" Ibrahim Saleh Ambar was a licensed pilot.
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Notes - Eldest sone of Saleh and Aimée Ambar. Family and friends knew him as Albert Ambar, but officially his name was Ibrahim Saleh Ambar. Throughout his life, Albert was fascinated by airplanes and became one of the first licensed pilots in Egypt. Expelled from his country as a result of the Suez War, he immigrated to Brazil in 1957 where he passed away on August 10th, 1969. He is buried in the jewish cemetery of Rio de Janeiro.
For most of his life, Albert worked for the Shell Oil Company, first in North Africa and eventually in Rio de Janeiro. During World War II he was stationed in Libya and Tunisia where he supported the war effort as a civilian pilot.
He did not talk much about himself, but a few weeks before he died, bed-ridden, Albert told his son Joseph about a group of Jewish pilots, including himself, and some anti-British Egyptian pilots, who were flying secret missions smuggling Jews into what was then called Palestine.
On his first mission he was supposed to pick up immigrants at a particular location in Egypt, fly them to Palestime, and return to Cairo that very same day. However, due unexpected delays, it got dark before he could complete his mission. He decided to fly into Lod instead and spend the night in Tel-Aviv. Without any information he went to Tel-Aviv, walked into a hotel speaking in English and asked for a room. He was treated very politely and rooms were apparently available, until the moment Albert produced his Egyptian passport. With his Arabic sounding official name, Ibrahim Saleh Ambar, the desk clerk looked at Albert and told him to find a hotel in Yaffo! There was a man smuggling Jews and he was told to go the Arab area of Tel-Aviv to find lodgings!
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- Eldest sone of Saleh and Aimée Ambar. Family and friends knew him as Albert Ambar, but officially his name was Ibrahim Saleh Ambar. Throughout his life, Albert was fascinated by airplanes and became one of the first licensed pilots in Egypt. Expelled from his country as a result of the Suez War, he immigrated to Brazil in 1957 where he passed away on August 10th, 1969. He is buried in the jewish cemetery of Rio de Janeiro.
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