WATCH: Cousins separated during Holocaust tearfully reunited after 75 years

Published September 25, 2019 2:46pm ET



Thinking each other had perished in the Holocaust during World War II, two cousins were miraculously reunited after 75 years apart.

Morris Sana, 87, and Simon Mairowitz, 85, were cousins and best friends growing up in Romania until they were ripped apart by the Nazi invasion of Romania in 1940. Their families fled the country separately and the cousins grew up assuming each other had died in the Holocaust along with six million other Jewish men, women, and children.

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