About 900 people have participated since the DNA Reunion Project partnered with Ancestry DNA to connect Holocaust survivors to their families.
Standing in the living room of her Baltimore home, Jennifer Mendelsohn pulls out old family photos, slowly unraveling pieces of her family's history. A few years ago, Mendelsohn discovered her husband's 95-year-old grandmother, who survived the Holocaust, had family living in the U.S.
While there have been attempts to use DNA to reunite Holocaust survivors before, they've never been on this scale. Ancestry DNA already has a DNA database of more than 20 million people. "Part of what the Holocaust did was just completely sever ties for families," Newman said."We're looking for those smaller connections where people feel 'It's not just me in this world.'"
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