Earlier this year I described how my wife, who was born in Israel but came to the US as a toddler, had stumbled on new and unsettling facts about her family’s fate during the Holocaust while at first researching my family tree. A great deal is known about the details and history of the Holocaust for reasons which I’ll shed some light on in a moment. But individual families often had only vague and incomplete information about the fate of specific individuals. Often there was no information at all other than that the people were never heard from again. Read More