Miss Puerto Rico stuns Yad Vashem staff with revelation she lost relatives to Shoah

Miss Puerto Rico Michelle Colón surprised her fellow Miss Universe contestants (and also @yadvashem staff) when she revealed that her great-grandfather was a Holocaust survivor, most of whose family perished in Auschwitz. pic.twitter.com/EPmNJAlCAk

— Dani Dayan (@AmbDaniDayan) December 4, 2021

Ms Colón later took to social media to reveal that Mr Cohn had moved to the Caribbean where he met her great grandmother Dorila Thomas, a farm administrator who was herself a descendant of slaves.

Sharing a photo of the couple, she added that “together, they form a beautiful family of empowered women who taught the value of resilience, second opportunities and hard work.”