Current Events > 102 year old thought his whole family died in WW2. Overjoyed to find he is wrong

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A 102-year-old Holocaust survivor thought his brother was killed by the Nazis, but, thanks to a Jewish Israeli organisation, he just met the nephew he didnt know existed.

Eliahu Pietruszka fled Poland aged 24 when World War II broke out, leaving behind his family, including his younger brother Volf behind. Despite escaping from the Nazi death camp where the rest of his family perished, Volf was sent to a Siberian work camp, where Eliahu assumed his story ended.

After settling in Israel, the centenarian learned just days ago that his brother, now deceased, made it through the war and settled in rural Russia. Eliahus grandson found a testimony in records at Yad Vashem, Israels official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, that Volf had filled out in 2005 for his older brother, whom he too thought had died.

Alexandre, Volfs only child, still lived in the same Russian village his father had and a meeting with his uncle was organised. Crying and cupping his nephews face Eliahu remarked that Alexandre was a copy of his father.

I have waited for 70 years to see you. 70 years, the centenarian told his nephew.

He said the meeting was a fitting end to a long, eventful life.


Full Article: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/102-year-old-thinks-whole-family-died-wwii-meets-nephew-never-knew/



That's got to be considered the greatest Christmas Present in the world
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D'awwww
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UnfairRepresent posted...

That's got to be considered the greatest Christmas Present in the world

...dude's Jewish
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Fuckin rekt
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How would he know that a presumably 70+ year old man is a copy of his father? He hadn't seen his father since he was a young man.
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