UPDATE: I want to share the closing chapter of this amazing search: Leonid Rubenstein (in Belarus) was reconnected with eight of his American cousin's (Tamara Alper) descendants this week! They traveled to see him in Minsk. Thank you again to anyone who helped with the search.
It turns out Tamara (Klein, nee Alper) was never at Dachau, but she was in the U.S. Army, serving in a home-front capacity, as she was pregnant with her daughter Judith at the time. Her husband Michael Klein fought in WWII, but also did not make his way to Dachau. Tamara and her mother were reconnected with Leonid after the war, but when Russia's iron curtain fell, they were forced to stop communicating. Leonid had been trying to find some one help him find his family since that time.
When we discovered the correct Tamara, Google and Facebook searches helped fill in the current-day details. Both Tamara and her daughter Judith recently passed away, but Tamara's son Roy, and Judith's three children were among those who we connected with. They were among the ones who have just traveled to see Leonid in Belarus.
This was truly a needle-in-a-haystack search. It would not have been possible without God's blessing of wisdom as I searched and the provision of various Ancestry member's suggestions. Leonid has been amazingly blessed by this connection with his family.
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-Rebecca