We'll Meet Again

Benjamin and Ben Search for Long Lost Friends

Clip: Season 2 Episode 2 | 44s

Ninety-year-old Holocaust survivor Benjamin Lesser describes losing his family in the horrors of the concentration camps during WWII. He’s looking for the fellow survivor who became like a brother to him. Ben Alalouf describes arriving in the USA in 1944 on the USS Henry Gibbons, a troop carrier sent to help Jews fleeing the Nazis.

Aired: 11/20/18

Rating: NR

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Ben describes running from the Nazis with his family and their journey to the US on the US

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