"We got each other now."
Cousins Morris Sana and Simon Mairowitz lost each other while fleeing from the Nazis in World War II. 75 years later, the Holocaust survivors have finally been reunited. https://t.co/KKXAADDaaf pic.twitter.com/UMpWvjmQr1
— ABC News (@ABC) October 5, 2019
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Cousins Morris Sana and Simon Mairowitz lost each other while fleeing from the Nazis in World War II and 75 years later, the Holocaust survivors have finally been reunited.
“We were an emotional wreck, that is what we were,” said Carmela Ofer, Sana’s daughter who helped orchestrate their reunion.
Ofer’s cousin, Carol Ritter Elbaz, who lives in Houston, called her in early September saying she found relatives in England who are “alive and well.”
Her reason for saying that? This side of the family was listed as “perished” in the Holocaust at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to the Holocaust’s victims.
Elbaz had been working on her family’s genealogy and placed an ad on JewishGen, which caught the attention of her now-found cousin Gemma Brown in England.
They connected as soon as possible.