The reunion of love

Jana Tolces's project for My Family Story 2024. ANU-Museum of the Jewish People

Jana Tolces

My story begins with my maternal great-grandmother Johana and my great-grandfather Julio escaping from Germany in 1938, due to the pogroms, with their bicycles. They had to take different paths because they lacked documentation, and Julio told Johana that they would reunite at the post office at 6pm in whatever country they were in. Julio arrived in Argentina and went to the post office at 6pm as they had agreed, but unfortunately, they did not coincide. Johana arrived in Paraguay in February 1939. My great-grandmother, Johana, always went to the post office twice a week to see if any of her relatives had written her a letter. But one day, she went to the post office and reunited with my great-grandfather, Julio. At that moment, it was 6 o'clock in the evening as they had agreed, which relates to the 6 points of the Star of David.
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