David Irving comments: WELL that is great news: the grand total is now down from Six Million to 5,999,998?    Not as simple as that.    We are of course happy for these two people, reunited after so many years.    But these stories of "tearful reunions" of Auschwitz "survivors" recur with such remarkable frequency, that they support those scholars who argue that a sizeable part of the millions of missing can written off less to the gas-chambers of Holocaust history than to bad book-keeping.    The Jewish community's unaccountable habit of changing their names, ducking out of sight, re-emerging with new names, and hiding from each other and the rest of the world is partly to blame.

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Tearful Holocaust reunion

TWO siblings separated by the Holocaust and living in Israel were reunited after more than 65 years. Beniamin Shilom and his sister Rozia [also: "Shoshana"] November saw each other Saturday after the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial helped connect the two.

Each had been convinced that the other had died in the Holocaust. Shilom survived the war serving in the Soviet army, while November lived through Auschwitz. "I still don't believe I have a brother," she told The New York Times on Monday, after meeting Shilom. "It is impossible."

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