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July 12, 2008

Holocaust siblings reunited after 66 years

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DONETSK, Ukraine (CNN) — 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.

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PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia woman separated from her family by the Nazis will reunite with a brother she hasn’t seen in 66 years. Thursday, May 15, 2008.

Galezkij says he never gave up in the search for his older sister. "I can die satisfied," he says.

Siblings Wssewolod Galezkij and Irene Famulak were separated in 1942 when Nazis took her to a labor camp.

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That was the night the invading Nazis came to take her away from her Ukrainian home.

"I remember it well because I kissed him good-bye, and he pushed me away," she said of her brother. "I asked, ‘Why did you do that?’ And he said that he doesn’t like kisses."

"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."

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… the other side of the globe, will have a reunion that is 66 years in the making. Wednesday, May 14, 2008. May 15, 2008: Siblings Parted By Nazis To Reunite

Holocaust siblings meet after 66 years - CNN.com
Holocaust siblings meet after 66 years. Story Highlights after 66 years apart, Famulak, 83, was reunited with her long lost 73-year-old

Both siblings survived the Holocaust and grew up on different sides of the Iron Curtain, not knowing the fate of the other.

But after 66 years apart, Famulak, 83, was reunited with her long lost 73-year-old brother, Wssewolod Galezkij. They held each other close this time, cherishing the moment.

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"I don’t believe anyone has ever known such happiness. Now, I truly believe I can die satisfied," Galezkij said.

Pa. woman, brother to reunite after Holocaust - USATODAY.com
A Holocaust survivor who lives in Philadelphia is preparing for a reunion with a brother she hasn’t seen in 66 years. and had six siblings when the Nazis

Famulak made the long journey to Donetsk in eastern Ukraine from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after being contacted by the American Red Cross. The organization told her they had located her only surviving sibling.

Famulak said she spent World War II in a labor camp in Munich, Germany, working in the kitchens. She had been taken to the camp with her older sister. When it was liberated in 1945, Famulak stayed in Germany for several years, eventually emigrating to the United States in 1956.

She never saw her parents again after that day in 1942 when Nazis separated her from her family. She and her brother still have no idea what happened to their mother and father. Some of their siblings lived through the war, but later died; others, they never heard from again after being separated.

But her younger brother never gave up hope of tracking his sister down. He, too, was sent to a German labor camp, but after the war, he moved back to Ukraine, then a republic of the Soviet Union.

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