holocaust siblings meet after 66 years


	holocaust siblings meet after 66 years

silvanaraihane

7-11-2008 9:41 PM

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silvanaraihane says:

I bet there were a ton of tears!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/01c040cc-3f99-45ab-b9dd-6de8437c0153/C34DF213-1FB5-4703-97F7-4EF1031EA47E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/11/holocaust.reunion/index.html" href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/11/holocaust.reunion/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/11/holocaust.reunion/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cnn.com/img/AB5B763D-A739-42CA-B191-9980DD9DD9D7" alt="Siblings Wssewolod Galezkij and Irene Famulak were separated in 1942 when Nazis took her to a labor camp." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/11/holocaust.reunion/index.html"><P> <B>DONETSK, Ukraine (CNN)</B> -- A frail Irene Famulak clutched her brother on the airport tarmac, her arm wrapped around him in a tight embrace, tears streaming down their faces. It was the first time since 1942 they had seen each other, when she was 17 and he was just 7.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/11/holocaust.reunion/index.html"><P> That was the night the invading Nazis came to take her away from her Ukrainian home.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/11/holocaust.reunion/index.html"><P> "The Nazis told my mother that I was being taken to work in a German labor camp for six months. But it was, of course, much longer. I was there for years." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/11/holocaust.reunion/index.html"><P>   Both siblings survived the <A class="cnnInlineTopic" href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/the_holocaust">Holocaust</A> and grew up on different sides of the Iron Curtain, not knowing the fate of the other. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/11/holocaust.reunion/index.html"><P>   But after 66 years apart, Famulak, 83, was reunited with her long lost 73-year-old brother, Wssewolod Galezkij. 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