Perhaps more amazing was that one grand uncle, after being in the US for a few years and enduring that journey, went back to his home area in Russia...about 1935... and later died in the Holocaust.
I watched it too. Amazing. He was overcome.
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“Your ancestors were among 6,000 Jewish residents of Jaffa who were deported to Egypt in December of 1914,” Gates responded.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/02/15/actors-david-duchovny-and-richard-kind-learn-jarring-information-about-jewish-past-on-finding-your-roots/