(photo courtesy of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills)

As part of the Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills’ B’nai Mitzvah Program, congregation member Justin Wolfe reached out to Remember Us: The Holocaust Bnai Mitzvah Project during preparation for his October bar mitzvah.

The Remember Us project encourages Jewish youth to learn about and remember children who died during the Holocaust. Wolfe is pictured with his mother, Dr. Michele Kalt, who assisted him with his studies through the Remember Us project.

As a result of Wolfe’s studies, he discovered the existence of his grandmother’s twin brothers, Gyorgy and Laszlo Bornstein, who were part of Nazi experiments during the Holocaust and died at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Only Wolfe’s grandmother and a sister survived. Their other five siblings and parents perished.

Yad Vashem in Jerusalem was the main source of information about the family. The information had been received from the Holocaust Documentation Center and Memorial Collection Public Foundation, in Budapest, Hungary.

Wolfe joins more than 25,000 children in more than 1,000 congregations around the world who have remembered children lost in the Holocaust as part of Remember Us: The Holocaust Bnai Mitzvah Project, which is affiliated with the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. For information on Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills and the B’nai Mitzvah Program, call (310)288-3737, or visit www.tebh.org.