The Apprentice of Buchenwald: A Story of Survival, Triumph, and Family Love
The last time Oren Schneider saw his beloved maternal grandfather Alexander Ruziak, the elderly man, who was 92 years old at the time, made an unusual request. For as...
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Her Parents Left Her on a Bench to Save Her from the Nazis. At 80, She Reunited with a Long-Lost Cousin
When the Gestapo boarded the train carrying Marta and Alexandr Knapp during their attempted escape from Prague in June 1942, they had to make a fast decision. They knew...
My Father Was Born From the Ashes of the Holocaust; My Son Looks Just Like Him
Yael Feder Devonshire recently submitted an entry into the Father’s Day Lookalike Contest that caught our attention. Not only was the resemblance between her father Gershon Feder and son...
MyHeritage Finds Family Members of Children Murdered by Nazis at Sobibor
In the year 1943, 4 Jewish children from Amsterdam were herded onto trains and sent off to an unknown destination. Each of these children carried something with them: a...
Family Separated During the Holocaust Find Each Other with MyHeritage DNA Test
The horrific events of the Holocaust tore apart countless families, many of whom were never reunited. One of these families was that of Gedalya and Miriam Sura Ehrenberg, a...
75 Years After 2-Year-Old and Mother Separated at Auschwitz, Their Families Find Each Other
When Clare Reay’s son bought her a MyHeritage DNA test, she hoped to discover a little about her mother’s ethnic background. She never imagined that the test would lead...
Holocaust Survivor Sees Family Photos for the First Time
Viktor Okmian, a Holocaust survivor, last saw his father Boris, mother Dobra, brother Ralph, and two grandparents in 1941. That was when his entire family was murdered by the...