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Two siblings find each other through website six decades after Holocaust

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(18 Sep 2006) SHOTLIST 1. Brother Simon Glassberg and sister Hilda (Glassberg) Schilk hug and kiss in Yad Vashem 2. Press cutaway 3. Close up on Simon Glassberg wiping away a tear 4. Close up on Hilda Schilk 5. Close up on Simon Glassberg's face 6. Brother hugging sister 7. Simon and Hilda walking and holding hands 8. Tilt up of museum wall 9. Simon and Hilda in museum receiving memorial books 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Simon Glassberg, brother who found his long lost sister "Now after 65 years I found my sister that I loved and liked all the time." 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hilda Schilk, sister "I am very happy to see him. I am excited" 12. Cut away to press 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Simon Glassberg, brother "I didn't even know that she's alive. When she came up by the computer and the son of my brother, which is a lawyer in Toronto, caught it from the.... he looked at it and he sees Glassberg, Glassberg, the name. She  …...more
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Two siblings find each other through website six decades after Holocaust
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(18 Sep 2006) SHOTLIST 1. Brother Simon Glassberg and sister Hilda (Glassberg) Schilk hug and kiss in Yad Vashem 2. Press cutaway 3. Close up on Simon Glassberg wiping away a tear 4. Close up on Hilda Schilk 5. Close up on Simon Glassberg's face 6. Brother hugging sister 7. Simon and Hilda walking and holding hands 8. Tilt up of museum wall 9. Simon and Hilda in museum receiving memorial books 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Simon Glassberg, brother who found his long lost sister "Now after 65 years I found my sister that I loved and liked all the time." 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hilda Schilk, sister "I am very happy to see him. I am excited" 12. Cut away to press 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Simon Glassberg, brother "I didn't even know that she's alive. When she came up by the computer and the son of my brother, which is a lawyer in Toronto, caught it from the.... he looked at it and he sees Glassberg, Glassberg, the name. She was married I didn't have her name... She had the husband's name... I couldn't. Suddenly he saw and he was looking he opened up the computer and looks and suddenly he see Glassberg, Hilda Glassberg. He knew that we were looking and she was the youngest kid... he calls his wife and says look. So his wife says call up the brothers, call up the family.... And you know what? Six countries we called and we were so happy." STORYLINE Two siblings have found each other six decades after the Holocaust, thanks to a website set up in Israel called the Central Database Victims Names. The brother and sister, Simon Glassberg and Hilda Schilk, arrived with their families on Monday at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem and spoke movingly to the press of their reunion after 60 years apart. The sister's grandchildren had searched the database and discovered a page of testimony filled out in memory of their grandmother. The page had been submitted by one of Hilda's brothers who believed that she had been killed in the Holocaust. Through the page, the grandchildren were able to find their grandmother's brother. "I didn't even know that she is alive when she came up by the computer", said Simon Glassberg who was moved to tears. Hilda, who was visible moved as well, only said: "I am very happy to see him. I am excited" The brother had flown in from Canada to meet his sister who lives in Israel, and will remain here to celebrate Rosh HaShana with his new family. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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