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Sisters who survived Holocaust reunited
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-02-07 14:09
Sisters Hannah
Katz, 78, left and Klara Blaier, 81, are seen in this photo made Saturday
and released by Yad Vashem on Sunday Feb. 6, 2005. Katz and Blaier, two
sisters who survived the Holocaust and moved separately to Israel in 1948,
each unaware the other had survived, were reunited after 61 years with the
help of a high-tech data base, a spokeswoman from the Israel Holocaust
memorial said Sunday Feb. 6, 2005.
[AP] | JERUSALEM - Two sisters who survived the
Holocaust and moved separately to Israel were reunited after 61 years with the
help of a high-tech database, a spokeswoman from the Israel Holocaust memorial
said Sunday.
Estee Yaari of the Yad Vashem Heroes and Martyrs Memorial Authority said
Klara Blaier 81, and Hannah Katz, 78, moved to Israel in 1948, each unaware that
the other had survived the Nazi slaying of 6 million Jews during World War II.
Yaari said the two had last seen each other in Hungary in 1944, shortly after
their parents sent them from their home in the former Czechoslovakia to live
with relatives. The two women could not be reached for comment.
"On Thursday, Hannah Katz's granddaughter was looking for information about
Katz's mother on our Internet database," Yaari said. "All of a sudden she
discovered that Katz's sister, Klara Blaier, was living about 85 miles away in
northern Israel. They were reunited the next day."
The Yad Vashem database contains information on about 3 million Holocaust
victims, Yaari said. It was added to the Yad Vashem Internet site last year.
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