WhatsappWhere do we come from? Many people come from mixed lineage. Scarlet Johansson is one example. Her mother goes back to a family that came from the old world to America in pre-World War I. From where?
Anscestry.com dug back into history. His family came from a town near Warsaw. Johansson’s grandfather moved to America before World War I. But his brother stayed. He and all of his family were herded onto cattle cars and brought into the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II, along with hundreds of thousands of other Jews.
Did they survive? Israel’s Holocaust Museum is the museum that keeps the records of millions of people who were killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Included were records of the second cousins of Scarlet Johansson who did not survive past their teenage years.
The restoration of our ancestor’s via searching through our lineage is a fascinating search. It often enlightens us about our past. But the key is to use the past to brighten up the future.
