I Found Descendants of the Man Who Saved My Father from the Nazis
Lionel Rossler, 49, of Rebecq, Belgium, tried for years to find the family that hid his father and grandmother and saved their lives during the Holocaust. When he took...
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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...
77 Years After the Holocaust, DNA Test Connects Survivor with Descendants of Surviving Relatives
Eva Szepesi was just 7 years old when World War II broke out and turned her life upside down. Living in Pesterzsébet, a district of Budapest, Hungary, with her...
Daughters of Mother and Toddler Separated at Auschwitz Reunited In Person at Last
A year and a half ago, we told you about the extraordinary and heartbreaking story of a mother and toddler who were separated at Auschwitz, never to see each...
MyHeritage User Finds Descendants of the Sisters Her Great-Grandfather Rescued from the Nazis
Not long ago, our Research team encountered an extraordinary story from Karolina Jurzky, a user who grew up in Poland. Karolina’s grandfather had told her that her great-grandfather rescued...
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...
Hidden Photo Reveals a Secret Past and Reunites a Family
Buried amongst her grandmother’s papers, in an envelope labeled “DO NOT OPEN,” Marysia Galbraith — an anthropologist from Alabama — discovered a shocking clue that would lead her to...