The Last Twins of Auschwitz Reunite After Decades
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An emotional reunion gives Holocaust survivors a chance to reflect.
Decades after surviving Auschwitz, the twins reunite in an emotional gathering in Jerusalem. Through shared stories, remembrance, and a symbolic Bar Mitzvah ceremony, they honor the past while reflecting on survival, loss, and the responsibility of carrying their history forward.
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The Last Twins of Auschwitz Reunite After Decades
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Decades after surviving Auschwitz, the twins reunite in an emotional gathering in Jerusalem. Through shared stories, remembrance, and a symbolic Bar Mitzvah ceremony, they honor the past while reflecting on survival, loss, and the responsibility of carrying their history forward.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[ Indistinct conversations ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ -I decided that it's about time to gather all the twins, and I invited them from wherever they are in the world.
A few came, and each of them told their story.
And I decided to construct a plaque there for my parents and for the twin children who perished in Auschwitz and never had any tomb or anything of that.
So, for that event, I thought that we should inaugurate it with the living twins.
And then the Rabbi organized a Bar Mitzvah for them because in the camp there were less than 13 years old, when you usually celebrate the bar mitzvah, so this was their event.
There was no one who didn't have tears in his or her eyes.
[ Both speaking Hebrew ] [ Up-tempo music plays ] [ Singing in Hebrew ] [ Rhythmic clapping ] ♪ ♪ ♪ I think that this story belongs to more people.
It belongs to the legacy of the survivors of the Holocaust.
It is a story that the hero of is my father, but the questions that we should ask ourselves -- Who are we?
What would we choose to do?
And what is humanity for us?
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