Seven decades after being torn apart from each other by the Nazi regime, an Italian mother and her German daughter have found each other again, according to a press release from International Tracing Services, a company “committed to keep the memory of the millions of victims of Nazi persecution alive,” according to ITS’s mission statement on its website.
Margot Bachmann, born in Germany in 1944, wanted certainty about her ancestry, and began searching for traces of her mother. Seeking help from International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, the company found in July that Gianna, Margot’s mother and herself a survivor of the forced labor camps of Nazi Germany, is 91 years old and living in Novellara, a small town in northern Italy.
Over the weekend mother and daughter met for the first time since being separated more than 70 years ago.
The two women met in Novellara and were accompanied by staff members from ITS and from the Italian Red Cross.
A full story will appear shortly on The Times of Israel website.
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