NJJN: Divided by time and the Shoa, a family reunites

In today's New Jersey Jewish News, write Elaine Durbach tells the story of a family reunited in Short Hills decades after being separated by the Holocaust, sending family members toward different destinies.

Writes Durbach, "On Dec. 24, Marlene Stevens of Short Hills and Gulnora Jurajeva of Uzbekistan embraced at John F. Kennedy Airport, almost two years after Stevens’ son Robert initiated a search for his mother’s long-lost sister."

The article is one of several in the NJJN chronicling the search by Rob Stevens, of Union County, who was able to fulfill his mother’s lifelong desire to discover the fate of her sister Frima during the Holocaust. Although Frima died in 1984, her daughter Gulnora was living in Uzbekistan and had undertaken her own search for her mother’s lost relatives.

To read the full story, go to the NJJN website.