Sisters, Separated by the Holocaust, Reunite After 61 Years

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By STEVEN ERLANGER

Published: February 6, 2005


ISHON LEZION, Israel, Feb. 4 - Klara Bleier and Hana Katz thought each other dead, swallowed 61 years ago, like the rest of their family, in the maw of Auschwitz.

The sisters were separated in October 1944 in the Budapest ghetto when Hana left one day to find work and food. She never returned.

But both came through the chaos of the end of the war against the Nazis, the death marches and the refugee camps; both came to Israel in 1948 and raised families, 45 miles apart. Both thought they were sole survivors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/international/middleeast/06israel.html?ex=1108357200&en=164b386021c3c3d3&ei=5053&partner=NYTHEADLINES_HP

Some GOOD news for a change!!

[joeybee12]

1. Definitely good news! Isn't it strange how stories like this--when family

members reunite, they have always been relatively close--physically--without knowing it? In this case they were only 45 miles apart!

[LiberalinNC]

2. Amazing! I can't imagine the pain they have lived w/ for 61 years

Thankfully they have found one another.

[Mabel Dodge]

3. That made me smile, thanks for posting the story.