During the Holocaust, a large group of Polish women were rounded up to
be sent to the gas chambers. As the group gathered their possessions
to take with them into the camp the evil Nazi officers called out to
all the villagers who were standing by watching, "Anything that these
Jews leave behind you may take for yourselves, because for sure they
will not be coming back to collect them!"
Two Polish women who were standing nearby saw a woman towards the back
of the group, wearing a large, heavy, expensive coat. Not wanting to
wait to see if others got the coat before them, they ran to the woman
and knocked her to the ground, grabbing her coat and walked away. As
the Jewish women were being led away, these two Polish women lay down
the coat to divide the spoils of what was hiding inside. As they
rummaged through the pockets, they discovered gold jewelry, silver
candlesticks and other heirlooms, but still, as they lifted the coat
it seemed heavier than it should be. After further inspection they
found a secret pocket, and hidden inside the coat was a little baby
girl. Shocked at their discovery, one of the women insisted to the
other, saying "I don't have any children, and I'm too old to have now.
You take all the gold and silver and let me take the baby". The deal
was agreed and the Polish woman took her new 'daughter' home to her
delighted husband . They raised the Jewish girl as their own, treating
her very well, but never told her anything of her history. The girl
excelled in her studies and became a successful pediatrician, working
in the top hospital in Poland.
After some years the girl's 'mother' passed away. A week after, she
received a knock at the door. An old woman invited herself in and said
"I want you to know that the woman that passed away last week was not
your real mother..." and she proceeded to tell her the whole story.
The girl did not believe her at first but the old woman said to her
"When we found you, you were wearing a beautiful gold pendant with
strange writing on it which must be Hebrew, I am sure that your mother
kept the necklace, go and look" and with that parting advice she left.
The girl went into her 'mother's' jewelry box and found the necklace
just as the woman described. She had it extended and wore it every
day, but thought nothing more of her Jewish roots.
Sometime later, she went on holiday abroad and saw two Lubavitch boys.
Seizing the opportunity she told them entire story and showed them the
necklace. The boys confirmed that a Jewish name was inscribed on the
necklace but did not know what to say about her status. They
recommended that she send a letter to the Lubavitch Rebbe explaining
everything. She sent off the letter and received a speedy reply saying
that it is clear from the facts that she is a Jewish girl and since
she had a special talent, she should use her invaluable skills in
Israel, a place in desperate need of talented pediatricians.
She took the Rebbe's advice and moved to Israel where she approached a
Beis Din who declared her Jewish. She was accepted into a hospital to
work, and she met her husband and raised a family.
Some years later...
When there was a terrorist attack at the Sbarro cafe in the centre of
Jerusalem in August 2001, this woman was walking nearby with her
husband. She told her husband to return home to the kids and she
proceeded to rush to the scene where she treated the wounded and
helped the injured to hospital. When she arrived at the hospital she
met an elderly man who was in a state of shock. He was searching
everywhere for his granddaughter who had become separated from him.
She calmed him down and went with him to search amongst all the
patients in order to find his granddaughter. Asking how she could
recognize her, the frantic grandfather gave a rough description of a
gold pendant necklace that she was wearing. After searching amongst
the injured, they finally found the granddaughter who was wearing the
necklace. At the sight of this necklace, the pediatrician froze. She
turned to the old man and said "where did you buy this necklace from?"
"You can't buy such a necklace" he responded, "I am a goldsmith and I
made this necklace. Actually I made two identical ones for each of my
daughters. This is my granddaughter from one of them, and my other
daughter did not survive the war"
...And this is how the Jewish Polish girl was reunited with her father.
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