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How A Mass. Woman Learned Her Family's Full Holocaust Story
When Severin Fayerman died last year, his daughter Kris Fayerman-Piatt, a Milton native, thought she knew all there was to know about her father’s Holocaust story.
But it turned out she knew only a part of it.
The pain of the Holocaust apparently caused her father to keep his true identity buried deep inside until the day he died.
'This Was All New To Me'
Six months after he died, Kris received an email printout in the mail.
The subject line read: “Our fathers were 1st cousins.” It was from her second cousin. Kris was shocked and surprised.
Bob behr“I didn’t even know this side of my family existed,” she said.
“I am sorry about your loss," the email began. "After a hiatus of more than 25 years of attempting to get my father Severin with your father Severin. ... Unfortunately ...
it never occurred.”
The email contained more news.
At age 60, Kris learned that she was Jewish. It was there between the lines of the email