And it is not known after the first three weeks of testimony how much they know about one another.
It is not clear from testimony how many relatives came to the United States, but records show Mr. Wu has several children, some with spouses and their own children.
A former senior executive with the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Mr. Kumar told the jury in his direct testimony how for years he passed along confidential information about his clients.
The oldest victim related in his testimony how he had first come into contact with Sandusky through the Second Mile, the charity for troubled children that Sandusky ran after he retired from coaching in 1999.
Carine Patry Hoskins is the junior counsel to the inquiry who trended worldwide on Twitter on Monday after being picked up by the TV cameras listening to Hugh Grant's testimony (how dare counsel pay attention?).
"It's always different when you know somebody, but this just brings home for me what he was saying in his testimony — how sometimes innocent people do get swept up".
A widow who moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1993 with her two teenage children, Ms. Hirkic described in her testimony how she last saw her husband when he and other Bosnian Muslim prisoners were led away by Bosnian Serb soldiers.
Contrary to that, however, testimonies describe how soldiers randomly shelled buildings either to no obvious military purpose or for revenge.
The testimonies of how Roma in the new Member States of the enlarged European Union have been persecuted and discriminated in all arenas of society in present times – education, labor and housing, politics and the judiciary – are numerous [21,23,25].
What is also clear from the survivors' testimonies is how, decades after they took place, these events are still being lived.
