I read this article today and as I read my eyes welled and I wanted to share the story here in my blog. Brother and sister meet for the first time since 1942, when Nazis separated them. It is indeed a heart warming story. The story reminded me of my brother who I lost last year but just reading this story made me smile. A beautiful story!
DONETSK, Ukraine (CNN) — A frail Irene Famulak clutched her brother on the airport tarmac, her arm wrapped around him in a tight embrace, tears streaming down their faces. It was the first time since 1942 they had seen each other, when she was 17 and he was just 7. That was the night the invading Nazis came to take her away from her Ukrainian home.
“I remember it well because I kissed him good-bye, and he pushed me away,” she said of her brother. “I asked, ‘Why did you do that?’ And he said that he doesn’t like kisses.”
“The Nazis told my mother that I was being taken to work in a German labor camp for six months. But it was, of course, much longer. I was there for years.”
Both siblings survived the Holocaust and grew up on different sides of the Iron Curtain, not knowing the fate of the other.
But after 66 years apart, Famulak, 83, was reunited with her long lost 73-year-old brother, Wssewolod Galezkij. They held each other close this time, cherishing the moment.
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Honestly msharma, I could relate to that in some way.
I was separated from my mother when I was an infant. It was not till I was 12 years old that I met her in person for the first time.
It’s a long story and not even this Comment box would carry all that I could relate.
Hello Windmill,
It’s always a pleasure to see you here in my blog
, Your reunion story with your mother seems to be interesing, hopefully we will get to read it on your blog soon , what say?
LOL msharma,
I don’t know if I have to courage to write it all down. It is a painful past and the scars are still there.
By the Grace of God, I survived as well as did my eldest sister though it went tougher for her being a girl.
My mom is gone now and may God rest her soul in peace. I might upset her in her grave if I were to write it all down.