Holocaust survivors cousins ​​reunited after 75 years of separation

Each of these men had been convinced for decades that his cousin and childhood best friend was long dead. Both of them survived to this day and were able to hug each other again - after 75 years.

Photo: video frame Leetal Ofer / Facebook

During the Holocaust in 1944, the best friends and cousins ​​Morris Sana and Simon Mairowitz lost sight of each other. Although Sana's brother was murdered by the Nazis, he himself was able to escape with his mother and sister, taking refuge in Italy, then in Paris, and finally moved to Israel. Sana thought that his cousin suffered the same fate as his own, writes New York Post.

Sana said on Good Morning America that he last saw Majrowitz in the early 40s in Romania. After the war, Sana looked for Mairowitz on the lists of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. He was listed as deceased.

But in September 2019, Sana's daughter, Carmela Ofer, received a call from a relative who had posted an ad on a Jewish genealogy website. The man discovered that they had family in England who were “still alive and well.” Ofer also researched genealogy and her DNA was matched to that of Mayrowitz's daughter.

“Everything fell into place,” Ofer admitted.

The family exchanged photos and “I recognized [Majrowitz] immediately because he looks exactly like my dad,” the woman says.

Ofer and daughter Mairowitz called each other on FaceTime.

“We cried and cried and cried and cried. We couldn’t say a word,” Ofer says. The women shared how they managed to find each other.

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When Ofer told her father everything, he was stunned.

“He said, ‘It can’t be. They are listed as killed in the Holocaust!” she says.

Both families then planned trips to Israel and changed their plane tickets to meet in person.

These two have not seen each other since childhood. Now, in 87 and 85 years, Sana and Mairovitz met again.

In a video that has become viral on the net, they both cry and cuddle.

It turned out that Mairovitz fled to England, where he was placed in a foster family and raised as a Catholic.

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After the reunion, the men went to Yad Vashem, where they made the correct note: Mayrowitz did not die - he was a survivor.

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