Holocaust Survivor Discovers Living Relative Through DNA Test
Shalom Koray, rescued from the Warsaw Ghetto as a child, connects with second cousin Ann Meddin Hellman in the U.S., marking his first known family link.
- 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Shalom Koray, who was found abandoned in a potato sack in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941, has discovered a living relative thanks to a DNA test.
- Koray was rescued by Lena Küchler-Silberman, a Jewish teacher who saved around 100 children during the war, and immigrated to Israel in 1949.
- Ann Meddin Hellman, a South Carolina woman, discovered Koray was her second cousin after using the DNA testing service MyHeritage.
- Koray and Hellman have been maintaining regular communication and plan to meet in person this summer in Charleston.
- The discovery marks the first time Koray has learned anything about his extended family, who primarily live in the U.S.
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