The Repair Shop fans in tears with heartbreaking Jewish prayer book signed by Holocaust survivors
ok.co.ukViewers tuning in to watch The Repair Shop were brought to tears on Wednesday evening as the experts were tasked with repairing a Jewish prayer book that had survived the Holocaust.
Repair Shop's book binder Chris Shaw was taked with fixing the item, brought in by Gary Fisher, which had belonged to his Austrian grandparents Emanuel and Gisela.The couple had been unable to flee Austria after it was annexed by Germany in 1938 and at the height of world war two and were sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. “My parents, they were in a concentration camp and they never knew when their time was going to be up, but they had their religion, they had their faith and that must have been a real comfort to them to never give up,” said Gary.
Sadly, many other members of Gary’s family didn’t survive the camps, but his grandparents did and at the end of the war they were liberated along with the book.
Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter . Uniquely, the prayer book was signed by the other survivors who were liberated at the same time, with over fifty signatures immortalised in the book’s pages.This means it is an important historical record of the era, as well as being a treasured possession for Gary and his family.
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