Doug Emhoff’s trip to Poland and Germany brings him back to Jewish ancestral roots – US second gentleman describes meeting Holocaust survivors who recently fled war in Ukraine as ’emotional and intense,’ recalls his own grandparents’ flight to safety in America | Timesofisrael

BERLIN (JTA) — For US Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, the final hours of a five-day working trip to Poland and Germany brought everything into focus.
It was here in the underground information center in Germany’s central Holocaust memorial that Emhoff sat down with several survivors, including two who had recently fled war-torn Ukraine.