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Besides serving as executive director
of the American Gathering of Jewish
Holocaust Survivors when she was
tracing her family's roots, she also had
been a licensed private investigator
and a road manager for an entertainer.
Soon after she began traveling
through Poland, often encountering
Old-World living conditions, she real-
ized that the assistance of a translator
just wasn't enough.
"There were different fragments of
archive inventories either published in
a few places or printed and unpub-
lished, so I hired people to go allover
Poland and collect this material,"
explains Weiner. "Some were archivists .
who would work fOr me on their vaca-
tions, and some were archivists who
took time off to do this."
Weiner learned that Poland had 3.3
million Jews before the war. Although
65,000 survived, only a few thousand
remain in that country. The odds of
finding a living relative, therefore, are
minuscule.
The same is not true in the former
Soviet Union, where she has located
her own relatives, enjoying gatherings
where they could compare stories and
photos.
Going to Europe several times each
year and staying for weeks, Weiner has
enhanced her ability to communicate
even though she still requires a transla-
tor.
"I've learned to read a few words in
Polish," Weiner says. "I've learned to
read Russian and can speak about 100
words. I can read documents now and
translate vital records and census
records, and I can read enough
Hebrew to pick out names on tomb-
stones."
As Weiner works with many people
tracing their heritage, she finds differ-
ent reasons for the pursuit, such as a
birthday or special event of an elderly
relative, a family death that has trig-
gered curiosity or discussions with
someone who has gone ahead with a
successful search.
One of her most touching experi-
ences was taking a woman to a small
town where they expected a difficult
time locating facts, but instead found
family histories on the first page they
touched.
Weiner believes the interest in look-
ing back has grown because the
Internet has opened a lot of possibili-
ties and the collapse of the Iron
Curtain has opened travel opportuni-
ties.
The researcher says she has not
encountered anti-Semitism. Rather,
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