'Now you can die': 92-year-old woman met with the family she saved during the Holocaust
A 92-year-old Greek woman could not hold back her tears when she met the group of brothers and sisters she saved during the Holocaust - the family brought with them dozens of descendants.
After an emotional Sunday meeting in Jerusalem, where she was introduced to the younger generation of the Mordechai family that Dina and her sisters helped protect more than 75 years ago, Melpomeni said she could now "die quietly," she writes. New York Post.
“We are a very big and happy family now, and it’s all because they saved us,” said Sarah Yanai, now 86 and the oldest of the 7 siblings rescued.
The Mordechai family lived in Veria, Greece, where the Nazis destroyed almost the entire Jewish community during World War II.
Dina, then a teenager, and her two sisters took a family of 7 people around the year 1944, hiding them in their own one-room house on the outskirts of the city.
“They fed us, they gave us medicine, they gave us protection, they washed our clothes,” said Yossi Mor, now 77 years old. He was a baby when he was hidden. “Dina loved me very much.”
At that terrible time, one of the children, an 6-year-old boy named Shmuel, became very ill and was taken to hospital, despite the risk of revealing his identity. In the hospital, he died.
Soon after, someone surrendered to Dean and her sisters. Nevertheless, they helped the family run in different directions, giving them the last clothes, although they themselves were poor orphans.
Yanai headed for the forest, another brother ran into the mountains, and their mother fled with the two youngest surviving children.
After the liberation, the family reunited and moved to Israel.
Although Mor and Yanai met their savior in Greece many years ago, this was the first time they introduced Dina to younger generations—the siblings had four dozen descendants.
More than 27 000 people who were not Jews but helped save Jews during the Holocaust, including about 355 people from Greece, were recognized by Israel as “The Righteous Among the Nations.”
The names of the revered are engraved in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Hall in Jerusalem, where the reunion took place. It is believed that only a few hundred of these people are still alive.
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