It was a beautiful and emotional reunion. American World War II Veteran Sid Shafner, while in his early 20s, helped rescue and liberate approximately 30,000 prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp in 1945. Seventy-one years later, on an Israeli Airfare Base, Shafner reunited with Marcel Levy 90, one of the Holocaust survivors. Here is a one-minute ABC clip of the first reunion in decades.
Levy, who lost his entire family, managed to escape Dachau concentration camp when he was 17 years old. While running through the woods, he found Shafner and took the soldier’s unit to the death camp.
Shatner was on a 10-day mission through Poland and Israel to meet with other survivors. He is the last remaining soldier from his unit. He told CBSN:
“What my regret is, I shouldn’t be the only one celebrating and taking the trip. These fellows should be with me, but they’re not.”
Here is the CBSN video:
During the reunion, Levy told Shafner:
Everything I have today is because of you.