Holocaust Survivors Meet Their Savior 75 Years Later
Source: AFP
Eyes brimming with tears, 92-year-old Melpomeni Dina Gianopoulou was reunited Sunday with Jewish siblings she had helped hide from Nazis in her native Greece during World War II.
Holocaust survivor Sarah Yanai, 86, had tears in her eyes as she held Melpomeni's hand. "It is a very emotional feeling, I can't describe it," she said. "We were hidden in her house. She saved all my family. Six persons... you can't imagine how dangerous it was for her, for her family, to keep us all," she added. "What can I say. They saved our lives."
The highly emotional meeting took place at the Hall of Names, in Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre, a memorial to millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust. During World War II, Melpomeni and her two sisters first hid the Mordechai family in a mosque before moving them to their own home in Veria, a small town near Thessaloniki, where they stayed for two years.
Sarah's brother Yossi Mor was barely two months old at the time. He is now 77, but still carries with him stories he was told about their life in hiding. Mor said their situation was "deteriorating" in the mosque, especially that of his small brother Shmuel, who had fallen ill...
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On Sunday, Sarah and Yossi brought their children and grandchildren to meet their saviour. More than 20 people, young and old, stood in front of the white-haired lady before hugging her, one by one. "I would like to have saved more," Melpomeni said in Greek.
In 1994, Yad Vashem honoured Melpomeni and her sisters by granting them the title of "Righteous Among the Nations" given to those who helped save Jews during World War II.
- Greek World War II rescuer Melpomeni Dina Gianopoulou is reunited with Holocaust survivors Yossi Mor (R) and his sister Sarah Yanai (L) at the Yad Vashem centre in Jerusalem on November 3, 2019.
- Melpomeni Dina Gianopoulou poses with the children and grandchildren of the Mordechai siblings her family hid from Nazis during World War II in Greece.
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