Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win
Best friends Ana María Wahrenberg and Betty Grebenschikoff said goodbye to each other in a German schoolyard in May 1939.
Now the school pals, who were separated aged just nine when their Jewish families were forced to flee the Nazis, have hugged each other in person once again after spending more than eight decades fearing the other had died in the Holocaust.
But in a St Petersburg, Florida, hotel room on 5 November, the 91-year-olds were finally physically reunited thanks to the USC Shoah Foundation – a non-profit organization founded by Steven Spielberg that records and preserves audiovisual recollections of Holocaust survivors.
Grebenschikoff was one of 20,000 European Jews to settle in Shanghai, while Wahrenberg and her family had fled to Santiago, Chile. Both had contacted databases to search for the other, but it was only when an indexer at the foundation noticed similarities in their accounts were they finally reconnected.
“These two remarkable women being reconnected after losing each other is such a testament of hope,” senior director Kori Street said earlier this year.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...or-split-them-apart/ar-AAR8aEd?ocid=Peregrine
Now the school pals, who were separated aged just nine when their Jewish families were forced to flee the Nazis, have hugged each other in person once again after spending more than eight decades fearing the other had died in the Holocaust.
But in a St Petersburg, Florida, hotel room on 5 November, the 91-year-olds were finally physically reunited thanks to the USC Shoah Foundation – a non-profit organization founded by Steven Spielberg that records and preserves audiovisual recollections of Holocaust survivors.
Grebenschikoff was one of 20,000 European Jews to settle in Shanghai, while Wahrenberg and her family had fled to Santiago, Chile. Both had contacted databases to search for the other, but it was only when an indexer at the foundation noticed similarities in their accounts were they finally reconnected.
“These two remarkable women being reconnected after losing each other is such a testament of hope,” senior director Kori Street said earlier this year.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...or-split-them-apart/ar-AAR8aEd?ocid=Peregrine