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An aliya application from a Swiss woman whose grandmother was murdered by Nazis is expected to be denied in the coming days.
Officials at the Interior Ministry have indicated that proof she provided documenting her grandmother's Jewishness is questionable, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Monique Martinek found out only two years ago that her grandmother - her father's mother - had been murdered for being a Jew; before then, she and her family had no idea of their Jewish roots or the fate of the grandmother during World War II.
Martinek's father had been raised as an orphan in Switzerland after his mother was murdered in Vienna in 1941.
"When I first found out, I was shocked; my father never knew what had happened to his mother," said Martinek, a pediatric nurse who had been researching her family's history at the national archives in Vienna.
"But when I found out, a lot came to my mind and I realized that I never really fit in, in Switzerland."
After discovering her Jewish ancestry, Martinek took the documents, which included a Third Reich-issued identification card stating that her grandmother and great-grandmother were both Jews, to a rabbi in Vienna. He verified the story and told her about measures taken against the Jewish community in Austria during the early 1940s.
Martinek also found her great-grandmother's grave, which showed...