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Who Am I? What is My Name? Part V – Gertrude and Sonia’s Escape

Posted on March 7, 2014

Gertrude and Sonia Preiss-Spiro’s names are listed on the transport to Auschwitz of 141 women from Pawiak prison in Warsaw on 24 August 1943. Pawiak prison was originally used by the Polish judicial to incarcerate criminals, but after the Nazi … Continue reading →

Posted in DNA Testing, Holocaust Project, Uncategorized | Tagged 23andMe, Auschwitz, autosomal DNA, Barbara Wenglinski, Birth Parents, DNA Identification, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Preiss-Spiro, Gertrude Spyra, Identifinders, Nowiniarska St, Pawiak Prison, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Sonia Preiss-Spiro, transport, Unidentified, Warsaw Ghetto, zloty | 4 Comments

Los Angeles Times Article “DNA Sequencer could give doctors wealth of genetic information”.

Posted on January 11, 2014

An article appeared in the Los Angeles Times last Saturday January 4, 2014 that is of interest to the genetic genealogy community: DNA Sequencer could give doctors wealth of genetic information. http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx The article was prompted by the recent FDA … Continue reading →

Posted in DNA Testing | Tagged 23andMe, Baylor College of Medicine, Direct-to-consumer, DNA Sequencing, DNA testing, FDA, Illumina, James Watson, linkage disequilibrium, MiseqDX, personal genomic service, United Health Services Inc | Leave a comment

Who Am I? What is My Name? Part IV – Wolfgang and Adele’s Eyewitness Account

Posted on October 26, 2013

Charlotte Schössow Rebhun was the oldest of four children of Emil and Margarete Schössow from Berlin. Charlotte, like her friend Gertrude Spiro, was a Christian woman who had married a Jew. Charlotte’s husband Max Rebhun had moved from Poland to Germany and settled in Berlin, … Continue reading →

Posted in Holocaust Project, Uncategorized | Tagged Adele Rebhun, autosomal DNA, Barbara Wenglinski, Birth Parents, Charlotte Rebhun, DNA Identification, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Spyra, Identifinders, Kristallnacht, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Righteous Among Nations, Unidentified, Warsaw Ghetto, Wolfgang Rebhun, Yad Vashem | 4 Comments

Who Am I, What is My Name? Part III – Gertrude and Sonia Spyra

Posted on October 17, 2013

A mystery within the mystery of Pnina’s identity is the fate of Gertrude Spyra and her daughter Sonia. As the parties responsible for smuggling Pnina from the Warsaw Ghetto, Gertrude and Sonia may have left behind clues about Pnina’s parents. … Continue reading →

Posted in Finding Birth Parents, Holocaust Project, Uncategorized | Tagged Auschwitz, autosomal DNA, Barbara Wenglinski, Birth Parents, Charlotte Rebhun, Chorzów, deportation, DNA Identification, Forensic Genealogy, General Government, Georgetown, Gertrude Spyra, Guyana, Identifinders, Katowice, Królewska Huta, Lotar Spyra, Meisner & Co., missing-identity, Myslowice, Nazi Germany, Pawiak Prison, Pnina Gutman, Poniecki, Silesia, Unidentified, Warsaw Ghetto | 6 Comments

Who Am I? What is My Name? Part II – Pnina, Wolfgang, and the Warsaw Ghetto

Posted on December 12, 2012

Convinced that my surname was Rebhun, I contacted Rebhuns around the world. Though the BBC, CNN, and the international press featured my quest, I initially received no responses. Finally in March 1997, the Munich Red Cross relayed a reply from … Continue reading →

Posted in Finding Birth Parents, Historical Identifications, Holocaust Project | Tagged Adela Rebhun, autosomal DNA, Barbara Weglinski, Barbara Wenglinski, Birth Parents, Bogdan Kazcmarek, Charlotta Rebhun, Child Survivor Holocaust, DNA Identification, Eva Floersheim, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Spyra, Holocaust Anniversary Day, Identifinders, Jewish Central Committee, Jewish Historical Institute, Missig Identity, mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA, Munich Red Cross, Otwoc Orphanage, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Sierakow, Sonia Spyra, Survivor, Unidentified, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Uprising, Wolfgang Rebhun | 4 Comments

Who Am I, What Is My Name? Part I – Pnina, Otwoc, and the Kazcmareks

Posted on December 10, 2012

My name is Pnina Gutman. I am 70 years old. I began the search for my biological identity in April 1996. I called this project “Who am I what’s my name?” I came to Israel from Poland at the age … Continue reading →

Posted in Finding Birth Parents, Historical Identifications, Holocaust Project | Tagged Adela Rebhun, autosomal DNA, Barbara Weglinski, Barbara Wenglinski, Birth Parents, Bogdan Kazcmarek, Charlotta Rebhun, Child Survivor Holocaust, DNA Identification, Eva Floersheim, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Spyra, Holocaust Anniversary Day, Identifinders, Jewish Central Committee, Jewish Historical Institute, Missig Identity, Munich Red Cross, Otwoc Orphanage, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Sierakow, Sonia Spyra, Survivor, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Uprising, Wolfgang Rebhun | 4 Comments

“The Mascot” – Truth or Fiction

Posted on September 15, 2012

The Mascot is the international best-selling Holocaust biography of Alex Kurzem…After an exhaustive international three-year search for evidence, my colleague Dr. Barry Resnick and I have discovered no proof that Mr. Kurzem’s story is true, nor has it been established that he is Jewish. Continue reading →

Posted in Historical Identifications | Tagged 21 October 1941, Alex Kurzem, Alicia Plesser, Angel at the Fence, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Barry Resnick, Birth Parents, DNA Identification, Dzerzhinsk, Erik Galperin, Forensic Genealogy, Frida Reizman, Heathcliff Productions, Henry Benjamin, Herman Rosenblat, Holocaust, Identifinders, Ilya Galperin, J-Wire, Jekabs Dzenis, Jekabs Kulis, Jewish, Jewish Claims Conference, Jewish Holocaust Center, Koidanov, Koidanov Massacre, Koidanov Yizkor Book, Latvia, Latvian Police Battalion, Lena Caneva, literary fraud, Mark Kurzem, Melbourne, Minsk, Misha Defonseca, Nazi, Peguin, Philip Maisel, reparations, Solomon Galperin, Sterling Literalistic, Surviving iwth Wolves, The Mascot, Unidentified, video testimony, Y-DNA, Yad Vashem | Leave a comment

Identifinders International Announces DNA Study for Child Survivors of the Holocaust

Posted on September 5, 2012

Identifinders International, in collaboration with 23andMe and Missing-Identity.net, announces a pilot study to help child survivors of the Holocaust to recover their birth identities. It is hoped that autosomal DNA testing will allow these survivors to discover family connections that would otherwise be … Continue reading →

Posted in Finding Birth Parents, Holocaust Project | Tagged 23andMe, autosomal testing, Birth Parents, child survivors, DNA Identification, DNA testing, Forensic Genealogy, hidden chidlren, Holocaust survivors, Identifinders, missing-identity, Poland, Unidentified | 5 Comments

The Mascot

Posted on May 29, 2011

The Mascot Keith Moor, Insight Editor at the Herald Sun newspaper in Melbourne, Victoria recently published an article on The Mascot, the international bestselling biography of Holocaust survivor Alex Kurzem. To read the article in pdf format, click here. As … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical Identifications | Tagged Alex Kurzem, Belarus, Circumcision, DNA Identification, Erik Galperin, Forensic Genealogy, Holocaust, Identifinders, Jewish, Jewish Claims Conference, Latcia, Latvian Police Battalion, Melbourne Holocaust Center, Minsk, mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA, The Mascot, Unidentified, Y-DNA | 3 Comments

Indianapolis Birth Announcements – Sep 9 & 10, 1948

Posted on May 16, 2011

To continue with the Indianapolis birth announcements, here at the births that appeared in the Indianapolis Commercial on September 9 & 10, 1948. Newspaper: Indianapolis Commercial Date published: 9-Sep-48 Name of parents … Continue reading →

Posted in Benjaman Kyle | Tagged Amnesiac, Benjaman Kyle, Birth Parents, Boulder, DNA Identification, Forensic Genealogy, Identifinders, Indianapolis, Indianapolis General Hospital, Methodist Hospital Indianapolis, Missing Persons, mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA, St. Vincent's Hospital Indianapolis, Unidentified, William H. Coleman Hospital for Woman, Y-DNA | 4 Comments

Author Archives: identifinders

About identifinders

Who Am I? What is My Name? Part V – Gertrude and Sonia’s Escape

Los Angeles Times Article “DNA Sequencer could give doctors wealth of genetic information”.

Who Am I? What is My Name? Part IV – Wolfgang and Adele’s Eyewitness Account

Who Am I, What is My Name? Part III – Gertrude and Sonia Spyra

Who Am I? What is My Name? Part II – Pnina, Wolfgang, and the Warsaw Ghetto

Who Am I, What Is My Name? Part I – Pnina, Otwoc, and the Kazcmareks

“The Mascot” – Truth or Fiction

Identifinders International Announces DNA Study for Child Survivors of the Holocaust

The Mascot

Indianapolis Birth Announcements – Sep 9 & 10, 1948

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