BELIEVE IT OR NOT

      
      
During the Holocaust, a large group of Polish 
      women were rounded up to be sent to the gas chambers. As the group 
      gathered their possessions to take with them into the camp the evil
Nazi 
      officers called out to all the villagers who were standing by
watching, 
      "Anything that these Jews leave behind you may take for yourselves, 
      because for sure they will not be coming back to collect 
      them!"

      
      
Two Polish women who were standing nearby saw a 
      woman towards the back of the group, wearing a large, heavy, expensive

      coat. Not wanting to wait to see if others got the coat before them,
they 
      ran to the woman and knocked her to the ground, grabbing her coat and 
      walked away. As the Jewish women were being led away, these two Polish

      women lay down the coat to divide the spoils of what was hiding
inside. As 
      they rummaged through the pockets, they discovered gold jewellery,
silver 
      candlesticks and other heirlooms, but still, as they lifted the coat
it 
      seemed heavier than it should be. After further inspection they found
a 
      secret pocket, and hidden inside the coat was a little baby girl.
Shocked 
      at their discovery, one of the women insisted to the other, saying "I 
      don’t have any children, and I’m too old to have now. You take all the

      gold and silver and let me take the baby". The deal was agreed and the

      Polish woman took her new ‘daughter’ home to her delighted husband .
They 
      raised the Jewish girl as their own, treating her very well, but never

      told her anything of her history. The girl excelled in her studies and

      became a successful pediatrician, working in the top hospital in 
      Poland.

      
      
After some years the girl’s ‘mother’ passed away. 
      A week after, she received a knock at the door. An old woman invited 
      herself in and said "I want you to know that the woman that passed
away 
      last week was not your real mother…" and she proceeded to tell her
the 
      whole story. The girl did not believe her at first but the old woman
said 
      to her "When we found you, you were wearing a beautiful gold pendant
with 
      strange writing on it which must be Hebrew, I am sure that your mother

      kept the necklace, go and look" and with that parting advice she left.
The 
      girl went into her ‘mother’s’ jewellery box and found the necklace
just as 
      the woman described. She had it extended and wore it every day, but 
      thought nothing more of her Jewish roots.

      
      
Sometime later, she went on holiday abroad and saw 
      two Lubavitch boys. Seizing the opportunity she told them entire story
and 
      showed them the necklace. The boys confirmed that a Jewish name was 
      inscribed on the necklace but did not know what to say about her
status. 
      They recommended that she send a letter to the Lubavitch Rebbe
explaining 
      everything. She sent off the letter and received a speedy reply saying

      that it is clear from the facts that she is a Jewish girl and since
she 
      had a special talent, she should use her invaluable skills in 
      Israel, a place in desperate need of talented 
      pediatricians.

      
      
She took the Rebbe’s advice and moved to 
      Israel where she approached a Beis Din who declared her 
      Jewish. She was accepted into a hospital to work, and she met her
husband 
      and raised a family.

      
      
Some years later…

      
      
When there was a terrorist attack at the Sbarro 
      cafe in the centre of Jerusalem in August 2001, this woman 
      was walking nearby with her husband. She told her husband to return
home 
      to the kids and she proceeded to rush

      
      
to the scene where she treated the wounded and 
      helped the injured to hospital. When she arrived at the hospital she
met 
      an elderly man who was in a state of shock. He was searching
everywhere<span> 
      for his granddaughter who had become separated from him. She calmed
him 
      down and went with him to search amongst all the patients in order to
find 
      his granddaughter. Asking how she could recognise her, the frantic 
      grandfather gave a rough description of a gold pendant necklace that
she 
      was wearing. After searching amongst the injured, they finally found
the 
      granddaughter who was wearing the necklace. At the sight of this
necklace, 
      the pediatrician froze. She turned to the old man and said "where did
you 
      buy this necklace from?" "You can’t buy such a necklace" he responded,
"I 
      am a goldsmith and I made this necklace. Actually I made two identical

      ones for each of my daughters. This is my granddaughter from one of
them, 
      and my other daughter did not survive the war"

      
      
…And this is how the Jewish Polish girl was 
      reunited with her father.