Holocaust Survivors Reunited at Chabad House
Nearly 74 years ago, a pair of young Jewish women left their hometown in southwest Poland, on a transport to a Nazi concentration camp. Both survived the Holocaust, but went their separate ways after World War II.
A random conversation on Long Island last month led to their unplanned reunion.
Shanie Ellerton, a member of Chabad of West Hempstead, brought her mother, Roz Speiser, to one of the synagogue’s Sunday morning social programs for seniors for the first time a few weeks ago. Mother and daughter sat at a table next to a stranger, Ann Welner, a 90-year-old West Hempstead resident who regularly attends the events.
Ellerton detected an accent.
“Where are you from?” she asked.
“Poland.”
“Where in Poland?”
“Sosnowiec,” Welner answered.
“My mother-in-law is from Sosnowiec,” Ellerton said. “Maybe you knew her.”
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