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Stephanie Colderick

BBC Reunion Hotel: Emotional moment Holocaust survivor's daughter meets man whose family hid her mum from Nazis

Welsh TV presenter Alex Jones' newest BBC show, Reunion Hotel, often tugs at the heartstrings as people are reunited with those from their past. In a very special union Arleen, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, met Chris, whose grandparents hid her mother from the Nazis.

Arleen, who lives in Boston, flew to Wales to meet Chris whose grandparents took in her mother, Susa, who was Jewish and pretended she was their own child during World War Two. They lived together with the couple's son - Chris's father - in Holland at the time.

Chris is from Penygroes in the Nantlle Valley and had always wanted to meet Arleen. Becoming emotional talking about Susa, Chris said: "She knew family love with my family. I'm immensely proud of my grandparents - these were ordinary people and they were heroes."

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