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September 14, 2023
The Yiddish Newspaper Column That Reunited Families after the Holocaust
Seeking Relatives.
When the death camps were liberated, thousands of Jewish survivors had no notion about whether their family members were still alive. Many others were eager to contact relations in the U.S., but had no records of their relatives’ addresses. When families managed to reunite, it was often thanks to a column in the Yiddish-language Forverts (or Forward)—then America’s leading Jewish newspaper—which had been involved in such efforts since its founding in 1897. Andrew Silverstein writes:
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The Yiddish Newspaper Column That Reunited Families after the Holocaust
Seeking Relatives.