German cellist reunites over 30 members of a family descended from Holocaust victims – After being connected by Friederike Fechner, almost two dozen descendants of brothers Julius and Felix Blach come to Germany to see their once-prominent family’s legacy firsthand | Timesofisrael

STRALSUND, Germany (JTA) — This charming medieval city nestled into the country’s Baltic coast appears an unlikely setting for a reunion of an extended family torn asunder by the Holocaust.
On August 18, against the odds, some 20 descendants of Julius Blach and his brother Felix Blach gathered for four days in the city where the Blachs lived and ran the Jewish family’s leather business at Heilgeiststrasse 89, in the heart of the city’s commercial center.