102-year-old Israeli who survived the Holocaust, first met with his family

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102-year-old Eliyahu Petrushko, who survived the Holocaust and now lives in Israel, first met his nephew.

For most of his life, the man was confident that his whole family died during the Holocaust, writes Euronews.

The news that his brother, like himself, managed to escape, came as a complete surprise to him. An additional surprise was the meeting with his nephew from Russia, about which Petrushko did not even suspect, the young man flew to Israel specifically to meet his uncle.

Eliyahu Petrushko fled from Poland to the USSR in the 1939 year, leaving his parents and his younger twin brothers in Warsaw.

One of them - Wolf - later also managed to move to the Soviet Union, from where he was sent to labor camps in Siberia. The rest of the Petrushko family died in a concentration camp.

Only after more than 70 years, living in Israel for a long time, retired well-known microbiologist Eliyahu Petrushko learned that Wolf survived the Holocaust and died in 2011.

Through the efforts of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Institute staff, Wolf’s only son, Alexander, came to Israel to meet his uncle.

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