July 11, 2018 at 10:30 am

102 Year Old Holocaust Survivor Meets Nephew After Thinking His Entire Family Died

by twistedsifter

 

Eliahu Pietruszka escaped from Poland at the beginning of the second world war thinking his entire family had perished. But last November ago he discovered that a younger brother had also survived and that his brother’s son, 66-year-old Alexandre, was flying from Russia to see him.

The reunion was made possible by a comprehensive online database of victims created by Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. Given the dwindling number of survivors and their advanced ages, the event seemed likely to be among the last of its kind.

via The Guardian

 

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