Long-Lost Siblings Reunited in Israel

[Come Together]

BNEI BRAK, Israel -- For nearly 60 years, Binyamin Shilon believed his sister was among the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Now he holds her in his arms and cries with joy.

Shilon, 78, and Shoshana November, 73, were separated from each other and their two brothers in their native Poland during the 1930s. After World War II broke out, Shilon ended up joining the Soviet Red Army. His sister was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland.

They survived and emigrated separately to Israel, each believing all the rest of their family had been wiped out by the Nazis.

Then on Friday, an American cousin brought November to Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial authority in Jerusalem, to check the records left by other survivors. The simple check revealed that Shilon was alive, and just a 90-minute drive from her own house.


more at http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/12/24/261.html

[brainshrub]

1. What a wonderful story.

[NJCher]

2. that is some story!

What these people went through to survive is mind boggling.


Cher

[beanball]

3. Joy to the world

Joy in the holyland.

[Come Together]

4. Good point.

It's really nice to find something like this piece, especially at year's end...and what a year!

Merry Christmas/Happy Channukah/Happy Kwaanza/Merry Winter Solstice and ABB in 2004!

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