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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Maira Butt

‘I thought my whole family were killed in the Holocaust – until a DNA test found the relatives I never knew’

Adriana Turk spent her whole life believing that her entire family tree had been wiped out in the Holocaust.

Growing up with her parents and brother in the small coastal town of Merimbula in southeastern Australia, she felt an unease about the unanswered questions of her past. Her childhood was defined by a deep loneliness and a struggle to fit in.

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