After 65 years a pair of siblings, separated during the Holocaust, have found finally found each other.

Hilda Shlick, 81, thought she had lost her entire family during the atrocities of the Holocaust.? Her grandsons Benny and David launched an internet search upon learning her maiden name, using the database through Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial.

The twenty year old grandsons found an entry, mistakenly listing their grandmother as dead.? They used that to trace the family, finding the fates of the rest of the family save one sister.? They also discovered that one of Hilda’s brothers, Simon Glasberg, was still living and in Canada.

They connected and met at the memorial in Israel, reunited at last, having not seen each other since they were separated in 1941.? They were overjoyed to find each other, finding still living family.? While the remainder of the family has passed on, they were hugging and crying and kissing each other, putting aside the sadness of others lost.

The database says the siblings are the second case of Holocaust survivors finding remaining family still living.? They are optimistic the success of Hilda and Simon will encourage others to seek out living family leading to more happy reunions.