{"id":92753,"date":"2022-02-20T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=92753"},"modified":"2022-02-20T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T14:22:48","slug":"05-00-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=92753","title":{"rendered":"Actress Learns of Family Ties to Holocaust for the First Time in New Episode of Genealogy Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Actress Learns of Family Ties to Holocaust for the First Time in New Episode of Genealogy Series<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pamela Adlon on an episode of \u201cFinding Your Roots.\u201d Photo: Screenshot.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Actress, producer and writer Pamela Adlon first discovered she had family members who were murdered in the Holocaust in Tuesday\u2019s episode of the PBS<\/em> genealogy show \u201cFinding Your Roots.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The writer, director and star of the FX<\/em> television series \u201cBetter Things\u201d was born in New York to a Jewish father from Boston, writer-producer Don Segall, and a British mother who converted to Judaism. She knew little of the paternal side of her family, but during this week\u2019s episode<\/a> of the show, Adlon found out that her great-grandparents were born in areas of the former Soviet Union that are now Ukraine, and that their native language was Yiddish.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1941, when Nazi Germany invaded Ukraine, then part of the USSR, and began efforts to exterminate its Jewish population, one of Adlon\u2019s great-grand aunts, Clara Berman, was living there with her Ukrainian husband and two children.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the Nazi invasion, Berman\u2019s husband was called on for military duty, but before he left, he took his wife and two children to stay with his mother in a village outside of Kiev. No one but Berman\u2019s mother-in-law knew she and her two young children were Jewish. Yet when German troops came to the town, Berman mother-in-law turned over her and her two kids to Nazi forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Adlon, who voiced characters on the animated series\u2019 \u201cKing of the Hill\u201d and \u201cBig Mouth,\u201d was shocked by the revelation and said, \u201cOh she told on them! She narced on their Jewishness. Wow! Why?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a family friend, Berman, at the age of 27, and her two children \u2014 a 3-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old \u2014 were among the roughly 33,000 people who were massacred by Nazis in large ravine in the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked by \u201cFinding Your Roots\u201d host, Harvard professor and historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., if she had any knowledge about her family\u2019s ties to the Holocaust, Adlon said, \u201cNo, not at all. And I was hoping that they could still be alive, [Clara\u2019s] babies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Adlon\u2019s great-grandfather, Frank Segall, died in Ukraine around the time of the German invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Berman\u2019s mother, Meniha Segall, survived the war, returned to Ukraine and lived there until she died in Kiev at the age of 85 in1969, when Adlon was 3 years old. She passed away the same year that Adlon\u2019s grandfather died in Boston.<\/span><\/p>\n

During Tuesday\u2019s episode, Aldon also discovered that her great-grandfather was a rabbi, and was presented with a photo of his tombstone inscribed in Hebrew, \u201cHere is buried a pure and honest man. He was famous Rabbi Itsak, son of Tzvi Ha\u2019Levi.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of time I spent in temple \u2014 if somebody had just said to me, \u2018your great-great-grandfather was a rabbi,\u2019 I would\u2019ve been like \u2018Oh wait, let me catch up to this sermon right now,\u2019\u201d Aldon said. \u201cIt\u2019s mind-blowing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Reflecting on all the new revelations about her family, Adlon said, \u201cWhat\u2019s so incredible to me is how little families know about their stories, how we just accept the crumbs, how we don\u2019t preserve our histories, and how I think people need to know this. Seeing all of these people, that\u2019s what makes you realize that everybody is important and how precious life is. All of us are against all odds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Aldon also made discoveries about her maternal side of the family, learning that the man who she thought was her grandfather was not in fact related to her. She learned details about her real biological grandfather, was told that her mother was the product of an affair and that the latter has a half-sister who currently lives in upstate New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

The segment ended with Gates Jr. revealing that Adlon is distantly related to actress Meryl Streep.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Actress Learns of Family Ties to Holocaust for the First Time in New Episode of Genealogy Series Shiryn Ghermezian Pamela Adlon on an episode of \u201cFinding Your Roots.\u201d Photo: Screenshot. Actress, producer and writer Pamela Adlon first discovered she had family members who were murdered in the Holocaust in Tuesday\u2019s episode of the PBS genealogy show \u201cFinding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92942,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92753\/revisions\/92942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}