Family separated at Auschwitz concentration camp finally reunited after 75 years

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Auschwitz concentration camp and spent their entire lives searching for each other.Sadly, mum Dora was never reunited with her daughter Eva before they both passed away – but the family have finally been able to reconnect in another way.

Clare Reay, who is Eva's daughter, turned up unannounced in Ohio to surprise her aunts Dena Morris, 73, and Jean Gerhart, 75, after their family were separated during World War II.The 52-year-old, from Newcastle, travelled from London on her very long-awaited trip to the US to surprise her biological aunts.She finally met them face-to-face for the first time after discovering they existed through a shocking DNA match last year.Her aunts had been searching for her their entire lives.Clare told the Daily Star: “The reunion was fantastic, I was so incredibly excited to meet my aunts in person, it's one thing seeing each other on Zoom but to be able to see each other and spend time together was wonderful.“Their reaction was even better than I expected, I'm so pleased we got it on camera as it was all such a blur at the time."During World War II when Clare’s mother, Eva, was just a young girl when she was separated from her mother Dora in Auschwitz and they were never able to find each other.The Auschwitz concentration camp was operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust.It was the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centres, with more than 1.1million men, women and children losing their lives there.Thankfully both Eva and Dora survived – and Eva was brought to Palestine and then adopted and moved to Britain shortly after.“My mother had no recollection at all of her time in the concentration camp,” Clare explained.“She didn't.