What a blessing and a great Thanksgiving.
Via Daily Mail:
A 79-year-old Holocaust survivor had an emotional reunion on Wednesday with the son of the Polish family who had risked their lives some 70 years ago to hide him and his parents from the Nazis.
The emotional reunion between Leon Gersten, who moved to the U.S. after the end of the second world war and Czeslaw Polziec, 81, who went on to live under Soviet occupation and serve in the Polish army, took place in New York.
The two elderly men had last seen each other as boys aged 10 and 11 respectively in 1944, when the Russians liberated their village of Frystak.
Gersten, accompanied by his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren welcomed Polziec at JFK airport after his exhausting trans-Atlantic flight and presented him with a bouquet of flowers.
A beaming Gersten embraced and clasped the hand of a visibly moved Polziec, whose Polish parents had risked everything to save five Jews during World War II.
‘It’s like getting to know each other again,’ Gersten had told reporters earlier. ‘To me and my children they’re heroes.’
