Current Stories
SEARCHING FOR JULEK SCZCUPAK:
Photos Reunited With Family
“After my bubbe passed away, I found two photos of a baby in a shoe box. On the back was the unfamiliar name Julek Szczupak. I wanted to return the photos to his family, so I emailed several people who were listed in JewishGen’s Family Finder, asking if they knew such a person.”
FROM VIENNA AND BRODY TO BUENOS AIRES:
Old Letters Reconnect a Family
“Leda showed me some carefully saved letters. The letters, written in German in 1938 and 1939, contained desperate pleas from Vienna asking Leda’s grandfather to obtain permission to allow them to immigrate to Argentina with their son Bruno.”
MY REHFISCH FAMILY – PART 1:
Who Was Sally Rehfisch?
“I found a few old letters of hers that she'd kept in a box in a hall closet. Since they were hand written in German, I couldn't read them. So I filed them away. But then I discovered that she'd also left me half a dozen family photo albums. That's when I really got the urge to find out more about my family.”
MY REHFISCH FAMILY – PART 2:
Margot and Fiep
“What made it so dramatic was that I didn't find her name in some musty public record, but in the subtext of a headline that turned up in a Google search, while looking for anyone named Rehfisch.”