{"id":262008,"date":"2022-02-05T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T21:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=262008"},"modified":"2022-02-03T21:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T03:59:42","slug":"polish-sisters-holocaust-80-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/polish-sisters-holocaust-80-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish sisters separated by Holocaust find each other after 80 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two sisters in Poland have found each other after nearly 80 years apart, all thanks to DNA testing. Halina Micha\u0142owska and Krystyna Leszczynska say they didn’t even know that the other existed. Both were born during World War II and neither remembers their parents. The DNA tests also revealed that the pair are Jewish \u2014 something that may explain why their parents chose to give them up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a massive, massive shock for me. I think everyone would feel like that in my shoes. What runs through my head is that I was not simply abandoned as a child, but that maybe someone has tried very hard to save me from the Holocaust,”\u00a0Leszczynska said.\u00a0\u201cAnd while I have always thought that I was alone in this world, now it\u2019s turned out that I and my sister were left together in a safe place.\u201d<\/p>\n