Decades after the Holocaust, cousins reunite
Reporting from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. —
Saul Dreier and Lucy Weinberg lost their families in the Holocaust, and for more than half a century they'd lost each other too.
The cousins emigrated to separate countries, where they learned English, fell in love, married, had children and led happy lives.
Each thought the other had died at the Nazis' hands. But on Thursday, they hugged for the first time since the 1940s.
"Is this Lucy? Is this Lucy?" Dreier asked as Weinberg walked toward him at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport....
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Saul Dreier and Lucy Weinberg lost their families in the Holocaust, and for more than half a century they'd lost each other too.
The cousins emigrated to separate countries, where they learned English, fell in love, married, had children and led happy lives.
Each thought the other had died at the Nazis' hands. But on Thursday, they hugged for the first time since the 1940s.
"Is this Lucy? Is this Lucy?" Dreier asked as Weinberg walked toward him at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport....