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Kin reunited 65 years after Holocaust
二战大屠杀幸存兄妹65年后喜相逢
JERUSALEM - Hilda Shlick, 75, thought she lost nearly all her family in the Holocaust — until her Internet-savvy(2) grandsons located her 81-year-old brother in Canada.
耶路撒冷- 75岁高龄的希尔达.史利克以为所有家人都在大屠杀中死了 – 直到懂互联网的孙子们找到了她现居加拿大的81岁的哥哥。
"After 65 years, I have found the sister who I love," Simon Glasberg said Monday in heavily accented(3) English, his eyes filling with tears. "I can't stop kissing her."
“时隔65年,我找到了我亲爱的妹妹。”西蒙.格莱斯伯格周一热泪盈眶地用带有浓重口音的英语说。“我不停地亲吻她。”
Using the database of Holocaust(4) victims at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, two of Shlick's grandchildren, Benny and David, began unearthing a mystery spanning(5) six decades and three continents.
借助以色列大屠杀殉难者纪念馆的殉难者数据库,史利克的两个孙子本尼和大卫开始挖掘这段跨越了60年三个大洲的秘密。
While improved technology in recent years has made the task of tracking Holocaust survivors easier, fewer and fewer survivors remain as each year passes.
虽然近几年发展起来的先进技术使寻找大屠杀幸存者变得越来越容易,但随着时光流逝,活着的幸存者也越来越少。
Scanning the database, the grandsons, both in their 20s, discovered an entry(6) erroneously(7) stating their grandmother had perished(8) half a century earlier. That entry led them to other surviving relatives, who eventually brought about(9) the siblings'(10) emotional reunion Friday.
史利克的两个孙子都二十多岁。在浏览数据库时发现一条登记错误地说他们的奶奶半世纪前已经去世。这个记录引导他们找到其他依然健在的亲属,并最终上演了周五亲兄妹激动团聚的一幕。
When Glasberg, who lives near Ottawa, Canada, saw his gray-haired(11) little sister for the first time, he recognized her immediately, he said.
当住在加拿大渥太华附近的格莱斯伯格第一眼看到满头白发的小妹妹时,他说他一下子就认出她来了。
The last time the two saw each other was in 1941, when the Glasberg family in Romania was separated after the Nazis invaded.
俩兄妹最后一次见面是在1941年。纳粹入侵后,生活在罗马尼亚的格莱斯伯格一家被迫分开。
Hilda, then 10, escaped to Uzbekistan with her older sister Bertha. The rest of the family — parents and four brothers including Simon — stayed in Romania, finding refuge(12) in a basement. The fate of one sister, Pepi, remains unknown. She disappeared and is presumed to have been killed by the Nazis.
当时年仅10岁的希尔达与大姐贝莎一起逃到乌兹别克斯坦. 其余的家人-父母和包括西蒙在内的四兄弟-仍留在罗马尼亚,躲避在一个地下室里。目前仍有一个叫皮皮的姐姐下落不明。她失踪了,并据推测已经惨死在纳粹手中。
Glasberg, his brothers and parents emigrated to Canada after the war ended. Shlick and her sister moved to Estonia, where Bertha died in 1970.
战后,格莱斯伯格及其父母兄弟移民加拿大。史利克和大姐移居爱沙尼亚,大姐贝莎于1970年去世。
In 1998, Shlick immigrated to Israel. During a family conversation this summer, her grandsons learned her maiden name was Glasberg, and they began to investigate her past.
1998年史利克移民以色列。在今年夏天的一次聊天中,她的孙子知道了她未出嫁前姓格莱斯伯格,于是开始调查她的过去。
1. kin 家属,亲戚
2. savvy 头脑,理解
3. accent 口音
4. Holocaust 大屠杀
5. span 横跨
6. entry 登录,条目
7.erroneously 错误地
8. perish 毁灭
9. bring about 使发生, 致使
10. sibling 兄弟姐妹
11. grey-haired 白发苍苍
12. refuge 避难所
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