Part of the world was commemorated by the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in the south of Poland. The place where a huge number of people have found death are visited by hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. With her own eyes, the camp also wanted to see the Bronx family in New York. As he writes During the visit, 17-year-old Yuval accidentally managed to solve a long-time family mystery.
During the tour in the infamous death camp, the teenager viewed freezing children’s drawings depicting guards, weapons and trains. In one of the pictures he found the name of his grandfather Michael. Until that day, no one in the family knew what fate of 13-year-old Freddy Popper. They divided brothers from Slovakia and never met again.
The Holocaust has irreversibly changed the life of Michael Popper. He was only 10 years old when he hid from the Nazis in a barn of a Christian family in the mountains. Freddy sent to live to relatives in Budapest. Aunt and uncle were supposed to be poisoned to increase the boy’s chances of survival if the Gestapo appeared. Although Michael survived, the mystery of his brother’s destiny persecuted him until his death in 2020.
“I very much wish to see my grandfather and we could talk about it“He said Yuval. He thinks the great -indoor would be proud of him, that he had found a missing piece of family history.” When I saw the name, my heart stopped. I couldn’t catch my breath. It healed something that has been broken for generations, “said the mother’s discovery Michal Dneran.