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Holocaust Survivor Meets His Rescuer 70 Years On

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This is the heartwarming moment that an Israeli man and a Polish woman were reunited in New York 70 years after her Catholic family saved him during the Holocaust.
Michael Hochberg, 77, met with Krystyna Jakubowska, 86, at Kennedy International Airport, and held hands as their relatives looked on.

Ms Jakubowski’s family provided refuge for Mr Hochburg when he was just 4 - after being literally thrown over the wall of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw to avoid falling into the hands of the Nazis.

For two years, he lived in Jozef and Rozalia Jakubowski and their son and three daughters, include Krystyna, a teenager at the time.

Speaking through a translator, Krystyna, who flew in from Warsaw to meet Mr Hochberg, said: ‘He was a very pretty boy and he was very good - no problems with him as a child.
‘But I was scared, because the Germans announced on the street what would happen if somebody is saving a Jew.’

Mr Hochberg managed to escape just before the 1943 uprising that sent the ghetto up in flames - and he never saw his parents or grandparents again.

‘Very few people helped the Jews’, Mr Hochberg said. ‘

‘In the Jewish tradition, you say, whoever saves one soul saves the whole world.’

After the war, Mr Hochberg grew up in a Jewish orphanage, before moving to Israel, where he had he had three sons and eight grandchildren.

Mr Hochberg and his wife live in the Israeli city of Haifa and are now spending a month in the US. They also plan to visit Las Vegas and Miami.

He and Ms Jakubowska met previously in Poland in 2006.