Holocaust Survivor, Polish Woman Reunite
By DAVID B. CARUSO
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- More than six decades ago, Joanna Zalucka hid a young Jewish girl in her bedroom for eight months, keeping the child from the Nazis in their native Poland during the Holocaust.

The girl survived, rejoined her parents and moved to Brooklyn in 1953. On Friday, Ruth Gruener, now 72, was reunited with her Polish friend at Kennedy International Airport.

"It is just so wonderful that no words can describe how I feel," said Gruener, sobbing as she hugged Zalucka. Although the two have corresponded for decades, they hadn't seen one another since 1944.

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Interestingly, a good friend of mine just got back from Poland, where he researched his family history. Both my friend and I are Jews. In his case, he thought that he was the only part of his family that survived the holocaust.

As it turned out, there was another close line of his family that came to America right after the war, and was living in Brooklyn. He contacted them, and they were quite surprised to learn they were not alone.