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DNA Testing Adds Branches to Holocaust Survivors’ Family Trees

JL;DR SUMMARY The Holocaust Reunion Project, initially known as the DNA Reunion Project and co-founded by genealogists Jennifer Mendelsohn and Adina Newman, aims to reconnect Holocaust survivors and their descendants to their lost family histories 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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HolocaustHolocaust SurvivorsJewish IdentityFamily ReunificationGenealogyAncestry.ComDna TestingJennifer MendelsohnAdina NewmanHistory Reclamation

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"They cite as one of their biggest successes the case of two Polish Catholic womenHalina Michalowska and Krystyna Leszczynskawho were adopted as infants by separate families only to discover, with Mendelsohn and Newmans help, that they were not only sisters but also Jews."

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