WESTLAKE, Texas (AP) — A remarkable get-together recently took place — in-person and also online — involving descendants of a group of Holocaust survivors. The project unfolded after a Texas woman was going through documents left behind by her deceased father. She found black-and-white photos of him and some other young Jewish men who’d been liberated by U.S. troops from a German concentration camp in 1945. Through months of dogged research, she identified many other descendants of her father’s fellow survivors, and recently arranged an emotional “reunion” at which they exchanged hugs, memories and tears.
Brittainy Newman/AP
Anna Salton Eisen holds up a photo of Emil Ringel, father of Barbara Ringel, for a Zoom video call during a gathering for families of Holocaust survivors in East Brunswick, N.J., on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. Seventy-six years after American soldiers cut down the barbed wire and fulfilled the prisoners’ impossible dream of freedom, Eisen brought together survivors’ loved ones. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman)
Posted
and last updated
Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
