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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

Searching for Relatives Bureau

This undated photograph of the Achun family shows Yocheved holding a photograph of her Aunt Ruth, who was tormented by the presumed Holocaust deaths of these relatives. (Courtesy of Audrey Greenberg/JTA)
April 26, 2015, 1:14 am
Honoring her mother’s Holocaust agony, daughter rekindles search
Trickle-down traumatic guilt colors third generation of Polish-Jewish family in the US
By Hillel Kuttler
Grandma Maryam with David Rashti's mother and (right) Grandpa Elyas with Rashti's father (courtesy/JTA)
January 3, 2015, 5:56 am
An Iranian family divided by revolution reunites
After lost decades and parental death, second-generation American and Israeli relatives finally meet
By Hillel Kuttler
Sofia Greenberg, shown in 1952 in the lap of her grandfather, Berl, hopes to find her American cousins. (Courtesy of Sofia Greenberg via JTA)
March 3, 2013, 9:50 pm
Russian immigrant seeks cousins spared from Holocaust
WWII cut the connection between Sofia Greenberg’s grandfather and his brother, who moved to the US a generation before the war
By Hillel Kuttler
Records at Haifa's Rambam Hospital reveal discrepancies in the accounts of her sister's birth, Sonia Lifschitz believes. (Photo credit: CC BY/david55king via Flickr.com)
February 14, 2013, 12:30 am
Did immigrants’ newborn die, or was she abducted?
Israeli woman suspects Haifa hospital lied about the whereabouts of her sister, believes she is alive and in the US
By Hillel Kuttler
Shalom Schwartzbard (photo credit: etrelibre.over-blog/Wikipedia Commons)
January 19, 2013, 5:50 am
Did Shalom Schwartzbard avenge the pogroms or kill the wrong man?
Israeli retiree Tamar Dagan hopes to learn more about her controversial relative, whose sensational murder trial riveted 1920s Paris
By Hillel Kuttler
A promising, published young poet, Sara Kucikowicz was killed in the Holocaust before she could complete her dream of immigrating to pre-state Israel. (Photo credit: CC BY/Keith Williamson via Flickr.com)
January 13, 2013, 5:02 am
Young Holocaust victim’s poems hint at what might have been
Now in his 90s, Sara Kucikowicz’s former teacher hopes to return beloved mementos to a member of her family
By Hillel Kuttler
Ofir Efroni hopes to find Rozsi Friedman (left, in 1948), who saved his grandmother, Koti Grunbaum (right), from certain death at Auschwitz. (Courtesy of Sara Efroni via JTA)
December 26, 2012, 2:03 am
Grandson takes over search for Holocaust survivor’s savior
As Alzheimer’s erases his grandmother’s memory, Ofir Efroni hopes to find the woman who helped her live through Auschwitz
By Hillel Kuttler
Illustrative: The family of Arnold Greenfeld, Hava Shilo's father, is shown in this 1932 image taken next to their home in Lvov. All eight people were killed in the Holocaust. (Courtesy Hava Shilo via JTA)
October 1, 2012, 9:13 pm
Decades on, Holocaust survivor seeks ‘alternate family’
Former child refugee Hava Shilo hopes to create a support network of those who endured similar traumas
By Hillel Kuttler
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