March 11 Colorado DNA Shoah Project

From: Ellen Shindelman Kowitt

Please publicize The DNA Shoah Project coming to Denver by passing on the attached press release and/or flyer to your email contact
lists or place in your calendar and e-newsletter.

Seventy years after the Holocaust, scores of families still seek information about loved ones lost in the chaos of war. But a
unique, non-profit effort at the University of Arizona is working to change that by building a database of genetic material in an
effort to match displaced relatives, provide wartime orphans and lost children with valuable information about their biological
families and eventually, when the database has reached sufficient size, assist European governments with Holocaust-era forensic
investigations.

The DNA Shoah Project

Thursday, March 11, 2010

6:30 PM

Temple Emanuel

51 Grape Street, Denver

Facilitators will be available after the talk to assist those interested in contributing their DNA to the project.

Shoah survivors, second- or third-generation descendants, or World War II-era immigrants and their descendants are encouraged to
participate. All are welcome. There is no fee.

Thanks for your consideration. We hope to see a broad community attendance at this worthwhile event.

Ellen Shindelman Kowitt
President, Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado
www.jgsco.org
www.dnashoah.org

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February 16, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ellen Kowitt (720) 221-6858, info@jgsco.org

The DNA Shoah Project at Congregation Emanuel

Seventy years after the Holocaust, scores of families still seek information about loved ones lost in the chaos of war. But a
unique, non-profit effort at the University of Arizona is working to change that. Syd Mandelbaum, a scientist with a background in
genetics and the son of two Holocaust survivors, has joined with Dr. Michael Hammer, a renowned geneticist at the University of
Arizona, to create the DNA Shoah Project. They are building a database of genetic material from Shoah survivors and their immediate
descendants in an effort to match displaced relatives, provide wartime orphans and lost children with valuable information about
their biological families and eventually, when the database has reached sufficient size, assist European governments with
Holocaust-era forensic investigations.

On Thursday, March 11 at 6:30 p.m., Congregation Emanuel in Denver welcomes Matthew Kaplan, research coordinator for the DNA Shoah
Project, for a presentation on this innovative program. Facilitators will be available after the talk to assist those interested in

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contributing their DNA to the project. Shoah survivors, second- or
third-generation descendants, or World War II-era immigrants and their descendants are encouraged to participate. All are welcome.
There is no fee.

This program is cosponsored by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado, Temple Emanuel, Denver Chapter Hadassah and Colorado
Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust.

Thursday, March 11, 2010
6:30 p.m.
Congregation Emanuel
51 Grape Street
Denver, Colorado

For more information on the DNA Shoah Project, contact Lynn Davis, information specialist, at (866) 897-1150 or lynn@dnashoah.org or
visit the Project's website, www.dnashoah.org. For local information, contact Ellen Kowitt at (720) 221-6858 or info@jgsco.org, or
visit the Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado's website at www.jgsco.org.