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Jerusalem, Israel (TML) – The Nazis murdered their grandparents, aunts and uncles during the Holocaust. And each one thought they had no relatives left in the world.

Last week, 66 years after the end of the Second World War, two cousins held an emotional first ever meeting in Jerusalem.

Thanks to some amateur sleuthing through records at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial’s data base, Liora Tamir made an astonishing discovery.

“I typed my mother’s name in Russian, Yona Shapira, and was astounded when it came up. I get goose bumps thinking about it,” says Tamir, who was born in the prison town of Vorkuta in the former Soviet Union in 1946.

She found that the name of her mother and grandparents had been added back in 1956 — but not by her. After tracking down all the documents and cross referencing names and locations, it became apparent that her mother’s brother had also survived and his son, Aryeh Shikler her first cousin, was living in Israel too, just an hour away from each other.

When Yad Vashem was founded by the Israeli government in the 1950s, it was guided by the principle that “every victim has a name,” and thus began the monumental task of identifying the victims of the Holocaust.

It got off to a tough start. In the early years of the state, native Israelis ridiculed Holocaust survivors for not having fought the Nazis. The stigma caused many to hide their past. As of today, Yad Vashem has collected the names of nearly four million victims and is trying to recover as many more identities as possible while survivors still live.

Israel is the country with the largest living concentration of Holocaust survivors, and Yad Vashem has urged them to come forward and give the names of those who died. According to the Centre of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, an estimated 327,000 Holocaust survivors eventually received Israeli citizenship. About 167,000 are still alive today and the majority of them are over 80 years old.

In the Jewish state, reunions had been common place decades ago. But now that these survivors are dying off meetings like the one between Tamir and Shikler have become very rare.

“Today, Yad Vashem and the central data base of Shoa victims’ names has four million names of Jews who were killed during the Holocaust documented,” says Cynthia Wroclawski, manager of the Holocaust Victims’ Names Recovery Project at Yad Vashem “We’re still reaching out to communities world wide to ask them to help us reach out to the members of their communities and ask them to fill out pages of testimony in memory of their loved ones who were killed during the Holocaust.”

Liora Tamir grew up an orphan in the Soviet Union after her mother died. She knew little except that she was from Poland and had been sent to the Gulag – as the Soviet prison system was called in the Stalin years — for her political beliefs. Tamir also knew that her mother had lived in Mandatory Palestine in early 1930s but had been arrested and deported by the British for her communist activities. She moved to Israel in 1979 and lives in Tel Aviv.

Aryeh Shikler said his father, Simcha Shikler, had lived in Brody, Poland, before the war and had followed his sister to Palestine. He had thought none of his siblings had survived. Indeed, the Nazis murdered his parents Golda and Hertz Shapira. According to Shikler, his father had adopted his mother’s maiden name Shikler after the British arrested his sister out of fear he would be deported too.

“My Dad didn’t tell us much because he wanted to spare us from carrying with us this burden of the Holocaust,” said Shikler, 73. “I never asked my father anything, but one day he told me he I had an aunt who once came to Israel.

“I’m happy. Delighted for myself to have an entire family and happy for my kids who never knew their grandparents and thought they had no relatives,” Tamir said after the union.

“When you actually meet you realize that blood is thicker than water,” Shikler added. “All you have to do is to listen and it all starts flowing out.”

The rare meeting took place as Israel begins to mark its national day (May 2 on the Gregorian calendar this year) to commemorate the Holocaust and resistance to the Nazis. Tel Aviv University’s Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of anti-Semitism on Sunday released its annual anti-Semitism survey, saying incidents were generally on the rise.

According to the survey, anti-Semitic attacks reflecting physical injury, vandalism and direct threats were “considerably higher” than in the 1990s. However, it said that 2010 marked a 46% decrease in attacks compared to 2009, a peak year with 1,129 violent anti-Semitic incidents recorded worldwide.

About 60% of the incidents occurred last year in Britain, France and Canada. Jews and Jewish institutions in Chile, where there is a large expatriate Palestinian community, and Venezuela witnessed increased assaults. But Russia saw a decline in violent anti-Semitic attacks, notably due to enhanced law enforcement, the survey said.

The surge in anti-Semitism in 2009 was seen as a direct result of Israel’s Cast Lead operation against Hamas in Gaza, which provoked unprecedented anti-Jewish activity worldwide, the report said.

“Despite the direct link often discerned between confrontations in the Middle East and surges of anti-Semitic incidents, the report said. “The underlying causes of anti-Semitic activity …seem to lie elsewhere: traditional anti-Semitism centered on the old stereotype of the Jew; the perception of Israel as a Jewish state with adverse Jewish attributes; and the adoption of these stereotypes not only by neo-Nazis and extreme right, but also by young radical Muslims.”

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