Mrr ~ Yes. As you will read above, my father lost all his first cousins who had been left behind in Roumania. About 20-ish of them, I believe. He was brought here at 1 year old but knew some of them who had visited in his childhood and youth [he was born in 1901], but I remember my grandmother, who did of course remember them all well, getting a letter from one surviving relative in 1945 when the place had been liberated. I know I never met any of them (thought I may have a vague recollection of some 'cousin' with a foreign accent in, maybe, 1935, when I was 3), but they were all as genetically close to me as my mother's large number of first cousins (both her parents came from large & prolific families ~ I myself had 23 first cousins, as my father was one of five and my mother one of eight), many of whom I did know well in my childhood. Her family originated in Lithuania, but I don't know what happened to any of her lot who might have remained there.