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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: This Holocaust survivor rediscovered her Jewish roots decades later—thanks to a Canadian genealogist
Description: In 1942, while Nazis were forcing the Jews of Krosno, Poland to move into the local ghetto, they missed at least one: an eight-month-old Jewish infant, left in a ditch by her frantic mother, wrapped only in a blanket, with just a birthdate and false first name pinned to the wool. A passing Polish couple found the child, brought her home and raised her as a Christian. She never knew her real name or identity, despite—she told people years later—always feeling that she was Jewish.
It wasn’t until 2017 that a band of keen Jewish genealogy researchers, including the la...