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- Who Am I? What is My Name? Part VI – Our Search for Gertrude Spiro
- DNA Pilot Study on Missing Identity Holocaust Children – 2013 IAJGS Conference
- 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
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DNA Pilot Study on Missing Identity Holocaust Children – 2013 IAJGS Conference
In August 2012, I was invited to give a lecture at the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies in Boston, MA, on our pilot project to identify two missing-identity child survivors of the Holocaust. Please enjoy the video of my talk that … Continue reading →
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Tagged 23andMe, autosomal DNA, Barbara Weglinski, Barbara Wenglinski, Birth Parents, Child Survivor, DNA Identification, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Spyra, Holocaust, Identifinders, Jewish Historical Institute, JewishGen.org, JRI Poland, missing-identity, Otwoc, Otwoc Orphanage, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Rebhun, Rozwadow, Stela Walowa, Unidentified, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Warsaw Ghetto, Weglinski, Wenglinski, Yad Vashem
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Who Am I? What is My Name? Part IV – Wolfgang and Adele’s Eyewitness Account
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 →
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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
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“The Mascot” – Truth or Fiction
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 →
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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
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