长喜英语六级常考时文朗诵100篇 Kin Reunited 65 Years After Holocaust
1.What had Hilda Shilick thought before she found her brother? She had ... in the Holocaust.
2.When was the last time they saw each other? ...
3.After the Nazis invaded, where did Hilda's parents find refuge? In ... in Romania.
Hilda Shlick, 75, thought she lost nearly all her family in the Holocaust — until her
Internet-savvy(2) grandsons located her 81-year-old brother in Canada. "After 65
years, I have found the sister who I love," Simon Glasberg said Monday in heavily
accented(3) English, his eyes filling with tears. "I can't stop kissing her." Using
the database of Holocaust(4) victims at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, two
of Shlick's grandchildren, Benny and David, began unearthing a mystery spanning(5) six
decades and three continents. While improved technology in recent years has made the
task of tracking Holocaust survivors easier, fewer and fewer survivors remain as each
year passes. Scanning the database, the grandsons, both in their 20s, discovered an
entry(6) erroneously(7) stating their grandmother had perished(8) half a century
earlier. That entry led them to other surviving relatives, who eventually brought
about(9) the siblings'(10) emotional reunion Friday. When Glasberg, who lives near
Ottawa, Canada, saw his gray-haired(11) little sister for the first time, he
recognized her immediately, he said. The last time the two saw each other was in 1941,
when the Glasberg family in Romania was separated after the Nazis invaded. Hilda, then
10, escaped to Uzbekistan with her older sister Bertha. The rest of the family —
parents and four brothers including Simon — stayed in Romania, finding refuge(12) in
a basement. The fate of one sister, Pepi, remains unknown. She disappeared and is
presumed to have been killed by the Nazis. Glasberg, his brothers and parents
emigrated to Canada after the war ended. Shlick and her sister moved to Estonia, where
Bertha died in 1970. In 1998, Shlick immigrated to Israel. During a family
conversation this summer, her grandsons learned her maiden name was Glasberg, and they
began to investigate her past.
