Jack Waksal and Sam Ron spent over a year together at a forced labor camp during the Holocaust. After the war, they had no idea if the other had survived.
The two started catching up on each other’s stories. Waksal had escaped the camp and survived six months in the forest in winter. Ron was moved to another camp and then American liberators saved him from a Nazi death march.
They got revenge on Hitler by living long, successful lives filled with children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.Their paths never crossed in Ohio, where each of them lived for many years. Now they each live in South Florida, as if they were destined to meet again. “I try to teach them not to hate, and to have a lot of hope and believe in yourself, this is what I did, this is how I survived because I believe in myself," he said.
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