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For Holocaust survivor Leon Gersten, Hanukkah and Thanksgiving had a special meaning this year, as he met the man whose family saved him from the Nazis. On Wednesday, for the first time in 69 years, he was reunited with Czeslaw Polziec at JFK International Airport in New York. During World War II, Gersten, his parents, his mother's sister and brother-in-law's family, were kept hidden from the Nazis for two years by Poleziec's parents in their attic. Despite the risk and having five children of their own, the Poleziecs took the family in, enduring Nazi raids and beatings. Czeslaw Polziec was their eldest son. The Gersten family lived with the Polziecs until July 1944 when the area was liberated by Soviet soldiers. The reunion was even more special for Gersten as Wednesday was the first day of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, and Thursday was Thanksgiving Day. The meeting was organised by the non-profit group, The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. Report by Mark Morris.
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