Tag Archives: Yad Vashem

Who Am I? What is My Name? – Part XII – Taking Stock

Posted on December 8, 2016 by identifinders

INTRODUCTION As with all research projects, there have been so many zigzags in this story, it’s only reasonable to take a break to take stock of where we are in solving the puzzle of Pnina’s identity. We haven’t solved all … Continue reading →

Posted in DNA Testing, Finding Birth Parents, Historical Identifications, Holocaust Project, Uncategorized, Unsolved Mysteries | Tagged Albert Lotterer, Archives of New Records in Warsaw, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Badische Landesbibliotek Wurttemberg, Berlin Bundesarchiv Lichterfelde, Berlin Landesarchiv, Central Archives of Modern Records in Warsaw, Charlotte Rebhun, Deutsche Dienstelle, genealogyindexer.org, Gertrude Priess-Spiro, Gertrude Spiro, Institute of National Remembrance, International Tracing Service, ITS, Jewish Historical Institute, JewishGen.org, JRI Poland, Landkreis Barnim, Leo Spiro, missing-identity, Museum of the Warsaw Uprising, Pawiak Prison Museum, Pnina Gutman, Polish State Archives in Warsaw, Sonia Priess-Spiro, Sonia Spiro, Stadtarchiv Leipzig, U.S. Library of Congress, U.S. National Archives, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USHMM, Warsaw Ghetto, William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum, Więżniowie Pawiaka, Yad Vashem, Zentral- und Landesbibliotek, Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB) | 3 Comments

For Immediate Release – Grant from the Elie Wiesel Jewish Studies Center, Boston University

Posted on November 7, 2016 by identifinders

The Center for Professional Education at Boston University has been awarded a competitive grant from Jewish Cultural Endowment Fund of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies to hold a one-day workshop “Holocaust Survival and Reunion Stories: Separating Fact from … Continue reading →

Posted in About Me, DNA Testing, Finding Birth Parents, Historical Identifications, Holocaust Project, Unsolved Mysteries | Tagged Boston University, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Forensic Genealogy, Holocaust, Jewish Cultural Endowment, JewishGen, JRI Poland, The Mascot, Yad Vashem | Leave a comment

DNA Pilot Study on Missing Identity Holocaust Children – 2013 IAJGS Conference

Posted on May 9, 2014 by identifinders

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 →

Posted in Holocaust Project | 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 | Leave a comment

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

Posted on October 26, 2013 by identifinders

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

“The Mascot” – Truth or Fiction

Posted on September 15, 2012 by identifinders

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

Tag Archives: Yad Vashem

Who Am I? What is My Name? – Part XII – Taking Stock

For Immediate Release – Grant from the Elie Wiesel Jewish Studies Center, Boston University

DNA Pilot Study on Missing Identity Holocaust Children – 2013 IAJGS Conference

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

“The Mascot” – Truth or Fiction

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