She thought the Holocaust wiped out her family – then found 50 living relatives
- Australian woman Adriana Turk, 74, believed she was her family’s sole survivor following her brother’s death last year, as she assumed all her other relatives had perished in the Holocaust.
- After taking a DNA test to explore her heritage, Turk discovered more than 50 living relatives spread across the world.
- Turk recently travelled to Tel Aviv to meet her 73-year-old cousin, Raanan Gidron, in person for the first time.
- Together, the cousins are mapping out their family tree back to the 1300s and uncovering details about missing relatives from the Holocaust era.
- Turk and Gidron described the reunion and meeting other newfound family members in Germany and Israel as an overwhelming and therapeutic experience.
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