on: 03-17-2013
Israeli Auschwitz Survivor Uses Facebook to Search for Twin Brother
Over one million
Facebook users have signed up to help a 72 year-old Israeli Holocaust survivor locate
his twin brother that he has not seen since the two were separated as four
year-olds at Auschwitz.
ABC NEWS reports that
Menachem Bodner has turned to the social media giant after months of
frustration.
Bodner, who’s birth
name is Elias Gottesman, changed his name after surviving the horrors of the
Holocaust.
And while his
brother’s given name is Jeno, Bodner says it is quite possible that his
brother’s name has been changed, as well.
The one unmistakable
link the two have are the successive numbers tattooed on their small arms when
they arrived at Auschwitz.
Bodner’s stamp reads
No. A7733. His identical twin brother’s stamp reads No. A7734.
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