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...
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...
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...