[IamJen]

Quote:

JERUSALEM - Hilda Shlick thought she lost nearly all her family in the Holocaust until her Internet-savvy grandsons located her 81-year-old brother in Canada.

"After 65 years, I have found the sister who I love," Simon Glasberg said Monday in heavily accented English, his eyes filling with tears. "I can't stop kissing her."

Using the database of Holocaust victims at Yad Vashem,

Israel's Holocaust memorial, two of Shlick's grandchildren, Benny and David, began unearthing a mystery spanning six decades and three continents.

Full story at AP/Yahoo! News:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060918/...ocaust_reunion

I can't even imagine the range of emotions that must have been present at that reunion. Whew.

 

[Amy SF]

My grandmother and her brother finally met again after being separated for 50 years, partly because my grandparents emigrated to the US in 1920, and partly because her brother lived in the Soviet Union and wasn't allowed to travel because he was Jewish.

But 65 years? Wow!

 

[IamJen]

See, I was reading your post thinking wow, 50 years...I thought this stuff only happened in the movies.