The chairman of the board of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem was reunited with a grandson of a Polish couple that hid his family during World War II. The Israeli daily Yediot Achronot reported that the grandson contacted Shevach Weiss after seeing the former speaker of the Knesset appear on Polish television.
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