“The only information I knew about my Borkovsky family was that my great-grandparents, who had lived in Kolno when my grandfather was born, were buried on the Chinese side of the Russian-Chinese border— and I wondered what on earth they had been doing in China!”
“My mother occasionally wrote letters in English to the last known address of her South American relatives, but never received a response…In 2013, I once again listed my family’s information on JewishGen’s Family Finder database, and this time a connection was made!”