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Orphaned Holocaust survivor reunited with family after 83 years

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A man who was orphaned in the Holocaust and smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Warsaw has been reunited with his long-lost family at the age of 83.

In 1941, Shalom Koray was discovered as an abandoned baby in the Warsaw ghetto by a teacher and psychologist, Lena Kuchler-Silberman, who gave him the name Piotr Korczak and bravely smuggled him out with four other

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