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Melpomeni Dina surrounded by Yossi Mor (d) and her sister Sarah Yanai, at the Yad Vashem memorial, November 3, 2019. Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP

In Jerusalem, this Sunday, November 3 reunion between Israeli survivors of the Shoah and a woman who, with his family, rescued them during the Second World War.

With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Michel Paul

The meeting in Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, is probably one of the last. A brother and sister survivors of the Holocaust, surrounded by their family, welcomed the one who had saved them 76 years earlier.

Sarah Yanai and Yossi Mor lived in Veira, a small Greek village barely 600 years old. With her family, Melpomeni Diana, now 92, had sheltered them during the Second World War. " It's indescribable," recalls Sarah Yanai, with tears in her eyes. As they took care of us, took care of us. We can not describe their acts, their courage, the danger they were enduring ... To house an entire family, knowing that it endangers them and all those around them. "

Of the 77,000 Jews who lived in Greece at the start of the Second World War, only about 15,000 survived. More than 26,120 people, men and women, all over the world, have been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for saving Jews at the risk of their lives. And some of them living below the poverty line receive economic assistance from a specially created foundation.