Over 60 Years in the Making

From the Jerusalem Post: Two brothers, one six and the other aged two, waited for their mom to return from finding them food -- in Budapest during the fall of 1944. She never returned. They were eventually found and given to different families; the older one going to a Jewish family, the other not. For 61 years, neither knew the other was alive. In an ironic twist, the two brothers were reunited today in Jerusalem. This is another one that is thanks to the amazing database at Yad Vashem. Absolutely amazing. The two met, embraced and in complete state of awe, sat over family photos.

"Everything here is unbelievable. How anyone could ever have survived," he said. "I am just in shock," he offered feebly, while his younger brother, speaking though a Hungarian translator, said that he had hoped for years that he would finally find his brother.

As they talked together, they kept their hands clasped tightly for several long minutes, as if refusing to let each other go ever again.

I love these stories, and I never tire of reading new accounts.