Mohr takes first on Swedish TV show

Anna Mohr, of Columbia Falls, took first place Dec. 16 on “Allt for Sverige,” a Swedish reality television show.

Translated “Everything for Sweden,” the show pitted 10 Americans who wanted to reconnect with their Swedish roots against one another for the grand prize of meeting their long-lost Swedish relatives.

“It was so surreal to me that I won,” Mohr said. “During the course of the show, I was in most of the eliminations. If there were two people in the bottom, I was one of those two people. Every elimination, I thought I was going home.”

The final piece of the final challenge in the “Survivor”-like show involved putting together a puzzle of Sweden.

“That’s how I got ahead and won, because I do puzzles with my kids all the time,” Mohr said. “I’m certain that’s what it was.”

Mohr won the chance to meet relatives on her great grandmother’s side in northern Sweden. The reunion was filmed for the television show, so Mohr didn’t have much time to meet many family members. She looked at photographs and newspaper clippings with them, visited a cemetery where other relatives were buried, and established a connection with relatives she’d never met.

Since meeting them over the summer, Mohr has kept in touch with younger family members on Facebook and older relatives via e-mail. A standing invitation to visit has been issued to everyone, she said.

“I’d really love to get back there,” she said. “The invitation is open to them to get here, too.”

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