While some deny or minimize the Holocaust, the ripples of the largest, most industrialized genocide in history are with us every day. Shalom Korai, an 86-year-old Israeli Holocaust survivor who was orphaned as a toddler in Warsaw, never knew he had living extended family. He was rescued from the Warsaw ghetto and hidden in a convent before being rescued, sent to France, then Poland, and eventually to Israel. Korai started his own family in Israel, and has three children and eight grandchildren. He thought there was no one else. That was until, with the help of DNA test offered to orphaned Holocaust survivors, he found his cousins living in South Carolina. That's how he ended up meeting Ann Meddin Hellman, whose grandfather was Korai's grandfather's brother. Yesterday, they met and hugged for the first time. We are all family. Am Yisrael Chai 🥲 🇮🇱
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