I have done my dna and I have come back 25% Jewish (Ashkenazi) – this is true of what I know from my maternal grandmother born to a Jewish family in the war.
My grandmother was Jewish her father was Belarusian and mother was polish. They were involved in the holloucast and it is very very difficult to trace my granny’s family members. I do know her father (my great grandfather) family name was newiaski. The family went into hiding in Belgium during the war, they were discovered by the nazis and were on a train to be sent to Auschwitz concentration camp when she was a baby. However miraculously the French resistance at the time blew up the railway tracks of this particular train and my granny was separated from her family and adopted by a wonderful French family who looked after her and took her in. She stayed living in the French country side until 16 when her father tracked her down and traced her via the Red Cross. He moved her back to London however she never had contact with her birth mother and her brother sadly passed away.
It is a very sensitive story and as you can imagine she doesn’t like talking about her past, however I would be so grateful to find out more about her family and potentially contact some cousins as this would be life changing.
Does anyone know of any resources I could use. Thank you 🙏🏻❤️
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