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Barry Sheppard reports on the deadly firestorm in Maui and how real estate developers are seeking to profiteer from the disaster.

808stateofaloha@gmail.com When I was young, my father often reminded us about our family history. He talked about our great-grandfather, who fled violent, anti-Semitic mobs that punctuated the Jewish experience in czarist Russia and immigrated to the United States at the turn of the 20th century. He spoke of his aunt, who married a Hungarian refugee in the 1950s who managed to survive the Nazi occupation and Soviet invasion. He talked about cousins with numbers tattooed on their arms — an involuntary and permanent brand etched into their skin by fascists when they were children. He told us ...