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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Canada Identifies Long-Lost Soldier from Prominent Jewish Family in the U.K.
Description: It took five years of DNA testing, forensic analysis and genealogical sleuthing to restore his name — and reveal a hidden past.
Pte. Albert Henry Detmold, was the son of British Jews from London, and the nephew of Rufus Isaacs — better known as Lord Reading — who served as Britain’s Chief Justice and later as Viceroy of India.
It is the first time since Canada launched its missing war identification unit in 2007 that a Jewish soldier has been identified, although
Detmold enlisted instead as Presbyterian.
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