(11 Jul 2024)
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++CORRECTS SPELLING TO SHALOM KORAI++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Charleston, South Carolina – 10 July 2024
1. Wide of Ann Meddin Hellman waiting for her relative at the Charleston airport
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ann Meddin Hellman, relative of Shalom Korai, on meeting her relative for the first time:
"He’s giving us the satisfaction of knowing that he has a family that he never knew existed and has been wanting for 83 years, and he’s coming down the jetway, I think."
3. Wide of Ann Meddin Hellman and Shalom Korai, a Holocaust orphan, meeting for the first time
4. Wide of Ann Meddin Hellman and Shalom Korai, a Holocaust orphan, walking through the Charleston airport
5. Tight on a sign welcoming Shalom Korai
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Israel – 9 July 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Horowitz, genealogist, MyHeritage:
"Ann did a DNA test and had it on MyHeritage. Shalom had a DNA test on MyHeritage. MyHeritage found out that they are second cousins."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Charleston, South Carolina – 10 July 2024
7. Wide of photos of Shalom Korai on display in Charleston airport
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israel – 9 July 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Horowitz, genealogist, MyHeritage:
"When I approached Shalom, he revealed that he (didn’t) knew anything about his family. He was an orphan. He never met, not the parents, any kind of other member of his family. He was alone in this world."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Charleston, South Carolina – 10 July 2024
9. Wide of family of Shalom Korai posing for a group photo in Charleston airport
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Arie Bauer, friend of Shalom Korai, translating for Korai:
"He didn’t, he didn’t absorb everything yet."
11. Medium of photos on display of Shalom Korai
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ann Meddin Hellman, relative of Shalom Korai, on finding her relative who was an orphan after the Holocaust:
"I felt like I’ve given somebody, yeah, a new life. I was gonna say he became my child. You know, I have to protect him and take care of him."
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Arie Bauer, friend of Shalom Korai, describing how he found out about his family:
"He called me and he said with the DNA he found, they found the family from him in Charleston. And I almost had tears in my eyes when I heard the story. He was really excited. He didn’t know at the beginning how to digest it. And it’s slowly dawning, dawning on him. You know, we had a lot of conversation about it, and he’s getting used little by little to have a brand new family that he never knew about before."
14. Wide of Shalom Korai and Arie Bauer leaving the airport
STORYLINE:
Shalom Korai never knew his real name or his birthday. As a toddler was saved from the streets of a burning Warsaw ghetto during World War II as the rest of his family was murdered by Nazis in Poland.
He lived with no idea of his past.
Until Wednesday, when Korai walked off an airplane in South Carolina on Wednesday and into the arms of Ann Meddin Hellman. Her grandfather was the brother of Korai’s grandfather.
“I feel like I’ve given somebody a new life. He’s become my child. I have to protect him and take care of him,” Hellman said, beaming and giving Korai another hug as they waited for his luggage so they could start several days of parties with dozens of other relatives at Hellman’s Charleston home.
The two long lost relatives found each other through the modern magic of DNA science and a genetic test Korai was given by a psychologist who studies children orphaned in the Holocaust.
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