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Sixty-nine years melted away in a moment of pure joy Friday as a New Yorker was reunited with the son of a Polish farmer who helped save him from the Holocaust. Leon Gersten was grinning from ear to ear when Czeslaw Pólziec emerged in the waiting area at John F. Kennedy International Airport. “Hi! Hi! Hi!” the beaming Pole said ...

Theodorakis, Andrew/Theodorakis, Andrew An ancient gold tablet which a judge ruled must be returned to a Berlin museum. ALBANY — A Holocaust survivor’s family has to hand over a precious 3,000-year-old gold tablet to the German museum that is its rightful owner, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday. The Court of Appeals, in a unanimous decision, rejected a “spoils of ...