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Of a school in poland, hoping for refuge in the uk. anya and shelley met through facebook. shelley was looking to help a ukrainian family. they connected immediately. we just wanted to help because we felt that as jewish people, we ve kind of been in a position where we needed help. i felt comfortable when we began, spoke the first time. i don t know how it s feel. as a people, as a country. and i certainly didn t know me, my family. it s unbelievable stories. but it became more unbelievable. as everyone got to know each other better and explored life in london together, anya told shelley about her grandfather, nikolai. during the second world war, he took injewish families, hid them from the nazis, saved their lives. years later, anya s grandfather was awarded a medal by the israeli government ....
For his courage honoring him as righteous among the nations. when she told shelley about him, something clicked. when i got the photo of the medal, i looked at it and i thought, i know this. that s so weird. i ve seen this before. it s the medal from that my grandfather produces produced when he was alive. neither woman could quite believe it, but archive records showed shelley s grandfather, moshe hecht, had made the exact medal awarded to anya s grandfather. when my grandfather was alive, he had a factory for metalwork in israel, so he produced medals for people who the israeli government gave medals to. and anya s grandfather, was one of those. it s unbelievable. and when i told my mum and my father, it s no. it s maybe another one. yeah, but it s true. ....
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