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Article: Missing Persons: Need help in finding long-lost relatives? If they're
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- July 25, 1996
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Marilyn Silverstein
Jewish Exponent
07-25-1996
Missing Persons: Need help in finding long-lost relatives? If they're. here, HIAS might be able to help
It's one of the oldest services his agency provides, said Robert Klotz - helping Jews from all over the world locate their loved ones who may have settled here.
"Our records go back to the 1910s," said Klotz, executive director of HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia.
HIAS fields about 30 requests a year for help in finding relatives - and makes successful matches in about three or four of those cases.
Requests come in from everywhere Jews have settled - Russia, Ukraine, Canada, France, Germany. Argentina and Brazil, according to ...