Two brothers separated by the Holocaust were reunited at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem this week. Lazar and Leibisch Sheiman had last seen each other in Poland in 1941, when Lazar was drafted into “work detail” by the Soviet Union and Leibisch was drafted into the Soviet army.
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