… this is why …
So very often, people who haven’t been bitten by the family history bug will shake their heads in disbelief over the enthusiasm of the researcher.
“Why?” they ask — even demand. “Why do you do this?”
Here, on Holocaust Remembrance Day,1 read this article.2
This.
This is why.
Connecting families with their history is why.
Even when that history is painful and horrific.
This connection is exactly why.
Kudos to MyHeritage for its work on this case.
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Why genealogy…,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 27 Jan 2022).
SOURCES
- See “International Holocaust Remembrance Day,” U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (https://www.ushmm.org/ : accessed 27 Jan 2022). ↩
- Lianne Kolirin, “Families discover fate of long lost Dutch Jewish children who perished at Nazis’ Sobibor,” CNN, posted 27 Jan 2022 (https://www.cnn.com/ : accessed 27 Jan 2022). ↩
Thank you for sharing this.
Stories like these always bring me to tears. You are right, this is why we do genealogy.
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this article. I hadn’t seen it. There was so much in this article to make me think. I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t heard of Sobibor. I suspect there are others I haven’t heard of too. And then the fact that Yoram Haimi spent 10 years excavating the Sobibor site alongside his fellow archaeologists . What devotion. Makes my family history efforts look pathetic. Not that its a competition of course. Just the devotion brings me to tears. And then that the tags were made by relatives. If not for them, they would never have been found, yes? So much to be horrified by in this article and yet so much to be grateful for – the love and devotion of those left behind to honour those taken in such cruel circumstances.