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It Began with a Picture

February 26, 2019May 31, 2019 Richard Baum February 2019

By Rashi Rosenzweig
“Two yellow Stars of David with the word ‘Juif ‘ are taped to the middle of Paulette’s bureau. She told me that these were patched to her clothes when she was a young girl in Nazi occupied France.”

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A Whole Other Family, Buried in Antique Russian Cursive

September 27, 2018July 16, 2020 successAdmin September 2018

“The ability to read pre-Revolutionary Russian cursive writing turned out to be the key that unlocked the entire history of my grandfather’s father’s family.”

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Survival in Stanislawow: Searching for Norbert Aleksandrowicz

May 29, 2018May 31, 2019 successAdmin June 2018

By Michael Diamant

“She found Norbert hiding in the utility room of her Stanislawow farm, hiding from execution, from certain death. She told Norbert he could stay and she hid him on her family farm for three years, at great danger to herself.”

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