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A reunion project for Holocaust survivors and their families runs a race against time

JL;DR SUMMARY The Holocaust Reunion Project, founded by genealogists Jennifer Mendelsohn and Adina Newman, is actively working to reconnect Holocaust survivors and their families through DNA testing and genealogical research. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Holocaust SurvivorsAshkenazi JewsFamily ReunionJewish GenealogyDna TestingHolocaust Reunion ProjectMark SteinbockJennifer MendelsohnAdina NewmanEndogamous Populations

Places mentioned

Dęblin, Lublin, Poland
"Steinbocks father, Mendel, was born in Demblin, Poland, in 1918 and survived the Holocaust."
Germany
"From a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany after the war,"
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
"Growing up outside of Cleveland, 71-year-old Mark Steinbock, a retired lawyer and accountant, knew little about his fathers family."
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
"Mendelsohn, a former Washington Post freelancer, created a name for herself during the Trump administration by tweeting out the family immigration stories of anti-immigrant politicians. You complain about chain migration, I reserve the right to do your tree, she warned politicians in a 2018 tweet. Before she began wielding genealogy as a political bludgeon, she got her start after innocently po"
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"she said over Zoom from her home in Boston, adding that learning of these new relatives has been a blessing."
London, United Kingdom
"The following year, Mendelsohn and Newman researched the ancestry of Jackie Young, an 80-year-old retired London cab driver."
Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, France
"A second-cousin in France confirmed that family who left Poland in the 1930s made it through the war relatively unscathed in the south of France."
Israel
"Almost 80 years later, Mendelsohn helped orchestrate a family reunion in Israel between Sarits daughter and her elderly aunts."
New York, United States
"Andrew Silverstein is a New York-based freelance writer and the co-founder of Streetwise New York Tours."

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