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Reunited after 76 years two Holocaust friends meet in Los Angeles
Alice Gerstel West and Simon Gronowski, once separated in Belgium, embraced at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Their families hid together in Brussels in 1939-41, with Gronowski surviving a death train to Auschwitz while Gerstel West fled via Casablanca to the United States, culminating in a tearful reunion on Yom HaShoah eve.
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Los Angeles
Alice Gerstel
Simon” Gronowski
Brussels
Gerstel
Gronowskis
France
Belgium
Simon
Auschwitz
Gerstel West
Los Angeles Museum of
Casablanca
Gronowski
Gerstel Weit
United States
Zoltan
Ita
Zoltan Gerstel
Leon Gronowski
Reed Saxon
Simon Gronowski
Alice Gerstel Weit