b'TELLING THE STORYAlways Remember he was. Extensive Google searching led Golden to Sara Zivony in Israel, whom she believed was Israelis daughter. USC Shoah Foundation formed partnerships withShe sent her a message: I think we might be second Ancestry and JewishGen.org, an affiliate of thecousins. Within minutes, Golden was looking at a photo Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial toof her great grandparentsthe first she had ever seen. the Holocaust so that budding family historians visitingMost members of the family were killed in the Holocaust; these two genealogy research hubs can have free accessIsraelis mother and his siblings survived. Golden is now in to searchable data from nearly 50,000 Jewish Holocaustregular contact with Zivony and other cousinsa whole survivor testimonies that are in the Visual History Archivebranch of the family she never would have found without (VHA). the Ancestry-Shoah Foundation partnership.The searchable VHA information includes recordsPhil Scheinman had no idea that his grandfather, Sam with names, birth dates, death dates, marriage dates,Red Scheinman, was one of 10 siblings. When his cousin relatives and more for the interviewee, as well asZoe began a pandemic-era project of filling in the family information on 600,000 additional relatives and othertree on Ancestry.com, she was able to find hundreds of individuals named in survivor questionnaires.relatives, and a link led her to the VHA testimony of As a result of this new partnership, invaluableAndre Scheinmann, a first cousin to Phils father, whom genealogical information will be made accessible to thehe never knew. Andres five-hour testimony revealed that Jewish genealogical community, and a critical sense ofhe had been a spy for MI6 and the French Underground communal memory will be preserved and transmitted tobefore he was captured and survived several Nazi future generations, says JewishGens Executive Directorconcentration camps. Phil edited Andres video into 20 Avraham Groll. minute clips to show at Scheinman Family Happy Hours. Lois Golden and Phil Scheinman are two genealogyAt the first showing, 40 Scheinmans signed on. At his researchers who exemplify the kind of impact testimonyfourth and last, 400 family members tuned in, including connections are making in the community. Golden hadAndres son. People listed with Andres testimony also led been trying to fill in her fathers family tree for five yearsZoe to many more names to add to the family tree, which when her nephew, working on a tree on Ancestry.com,now contains 1,000 people covering six generations.found her great grandparents names, Fischel and MindlVisit at ancestry.com/alwaysremember andGarbuz, in the biographical information accompanyinghttps://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/. Yaakov Israelis VHA testimony. Golden had no idea who 20 2020 ANNUAL REPORT'