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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: It took a war in Ukraine for this woman to finally find the family that saved her grandparents' lives
Description: Just before Passover, Dori Ekstein was taking part in a webinar held by the March of the Living program. She heard a speech by a British/Israeli aid worker about the work his group is doing in Ukraine, helping the roughly 18 Righteous Among the Nations who were still alive. That news prompted Ekstein to bring up that her mother and grandparents had been hidden by a Ukrainian family in their barn in Dolyna for two years, and she had been searching for that barn for years.
What Ekstein didn't know was that a Ukrainian woman had been...