When @amos_guiora saw the email drop into his inbox he had no idea what to make of it. He didn’t recognize the sender, but the subject line startled him: Schlomo Nathan Goldberg, the name of his paternal grandfather who perished in Auschwitz in 1944. The message came from an amateur genealogist who was volunteering with the Looted Books Project, a joint initiative of @JewishGen's Kalikow Genealogy Center at @MJHnews and the @lbinyc. Guiora is now eagerly awaiting the arrival of four volumes of Talmudic text, all of which bear his grandfather’s name in Hebrew and are being dispatched at the expense of the German government. “To call it overwhelming is the mother of all understatements,” Guiora told Jewish Insider. Read the full story: https://vistasocial.com/400/
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