Donald Trump and Belarus

What connects the new US president with a small country in the heart of Europe, and why Trump grandchildren almost every year come to Belarus?

Many of you know that our planet is quite small and many people are distantly related with each other. It is the case with the family of Donald Trump. Husband of Trump daughter Ivanka Jared Kushner has Belarusian roots.
Before World War II Kushners lived in Novogrudok.After the arrival of the Germans the whole family was in the Novogrudok ghetto, miraculously escaped execution in the selection. September 26, 1943 ghetto prisoners committed mass escape had broken tunnel. Some were caught by the Germans, some escaped. Part of the family Kushnerv with another 152 people joined partisan group of Bielski.
This was a particular partisan detachment. Tuvia Bielski (Detachment Commander), the main purpose considered not the fight against the Nazis but saving the maximum number of Jews. Seidel Kushner, head of the family, most likely worked in partisan workshops. His daughter Eden Kushner met with Josef Berkovich in 1944. Subsequently Berkowitz took the surname Kushner. After the war, Kushners as like as Bielski emigrated to the United States.
Charles Kushner - the father of Jared, periodically coming to Novogrudok. The first time he was in 1989g. Sometimes he brings grandchildren to introduce them to the history, to show where the roots of the family go. It helps to fund the Museum of the Jewish Resistance and the creation of a memorial at the tunnel exit with the names of those killed in the escape.

Among the former ghetto prisoners were many successful people. And Belarus is full of such stories. So, she gave only one president of Belarus in its history, but three presidents of Israel!