Two siblings separated by the Holocaust and living in Israel were reunited after more than 65 years. Beniamin Shilom and his sister Rozia November saw each other Saturday after the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial helped connect the two. Each had been convinced that the other had died in the Holocaust. Shilom survived the war serving in the Soviet army, while November lived through Auschwitz.
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