Holocaust survivor reunites with woman who saved him 70 years later
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A Holocaust survivor clutched a bouquet of roses Wednesday at JFK Airport in New York, waiting to meet the woman who hid him during the Holocaust.
Michael Hochberg once lived in secret inside Krystyna Jakubowksa’s home. Jakubowksa’s mother, Rozalla, opened her arms to 4-year-old Hochberg during the Holocaust.
For more than two years, the family kept Hochberg hidden. WLNY reported he would sometimes sneak out for fresh air at night.
Krystyna Jakubowksa was a teenager at the time.
“Germans announced very often, in public, on the streets, what would happen if someone (was) saving a Jew,” she said through a translator.
In 1945, they were liberated by the Russian Army. Hochberg was taken from Jakubowksa and her family and was sent to live in a Jewish orphanage.
At age 18, he moved to Israel where he still lives today.
Wonderful reunion at JFK Airport this afternoon. Krystyna Jakuboswka, a Righteous Gentile from Poland, was reunited with Michael Hochberg, the Jewish boy she saved more than 70 years ago in Warsaw, Poland.
Posted by The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous on Wednesday, December 2, 2015
