My Diamond (formerly Diment) grandparents were Holocaust survivors. My grandfather came to America with his two surviving siblings after his parents and two other siblings were killed in the Holocaust. I've since managed to connect with descendants of two of his father's siblings--one because of a DNA match in which we learned that my grandfather's Aunt Shaindel had emigrated to Michigan rather than dying in the Holocaust like we'd thought, and then because of intensive paper-trail research where I found descendants of my grandfather's Uncle Leibish. But now I have found descendants of one of my grandfather's half siblings, halfway across the world! My father has a new-to-us half-second cousin, and a Holocaust survivor who lived most of her life in Ukraine (now living in Germany) who thought she had no relatives on her father's side has found out that she has a large family.
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| Email from MyHeritage about a new--and intriguing--match |
