Example – Bringing families together

One example of our genealogical research is especially gratifying. It concerns three brothers, each of whom ended up in a different place: one in France, the other in Palestine, and the other in Argentinia. For many years they had been searching for their non-Jewish halfsisters in Germany – but they had no success because they had only vague information about the sisters' whereabouts.
After the finding the entry of one of the sisters in a baptisimal register of the church archive in Bayreuth, we were able to find the name of the other sister (with the help of the Lord Mayor despite the fact that privacy laws had just become even stricter). When we finally obtained the addresses from the regsitry office, a family meeting was arranged with relatives from Argentinia and France coming to Germany to paritcipate. One year later the brother living in Tel Aviv came to Bayreuth as well to meet his "new" relatives – it is worth mentioning that it was his first time in Bayreuth after his expulsion from his home town 71 years ago.