Reunited and It Feels So Good
Sun, May 19
|online via Zoom
Join us on May 19 at 1 p.m. CDT when Jennifer Mendelsohn, co-founder of the Center for Jewish History's DNA Reunion Project, now called The Holocaust Reunion Project, will speak about Holocaust survivors and their children reunited with lost or unknown relatives through DNA analysis.
Time & Location
May 19, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CDT
online via Zoom
About The Event
A 95-year-old Holocaust survivor whose entire family was lost learns she has three living first cousins. A Holocaust orphan lives her entire life without knowing her true identity. Four years after her death, the woman's daughter is finally reunited with her biological family thanks to a DNA test. A child survivor of Theresienstadt finally learns the identity of his unknown father.
Join us on May 19 at 1 p.m. CDT when Jennifer Mendelsohn will present Reunited and It Feels so Good, about Holocaust survivors and their children reunited with lost or unknown relatives through DNA analysis. This talk will detail some of the amazing and unexpected Holocaust reunions Jennifer Mendelsohn has helped orchestrate through a blend of dogged paper trail research and careful DNA analysis. In 2022, Mendelsohn co-founded the DNA Reunion Project at the Center for Jewish History, a first-of-its kind effort to provide free DNA testing to Holocaust…