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In the early days of World War II, a Jewish farmer, his wife and three teenage sons were taken by the Germans to different death camps. Four years later, when the war ended, the man was finally freed, but his physical condition confined him to a hospital for more than a year. Upon release from the hospital, and learning of the death of his wife, he began a search for his three sons. "If they survived, though they be scattered to the four corners of the earth, I will find them," he vowed to a newspaper editor. "In spite of the terrible tragedies that have come upon my family, I believe that God will restore my sons to me." More than a year later, the father located one of the young men working in a store in Switzerland. Rejoicing in their reunion, the two continued the search for the others. Several months passed before they found one of the sons in a hospital in Poland, crippled as a result of torture and malnutrition. Continuing in the search, it was they who were eventually found by the third son, who had been conducting a search of his own. The reunited family soon opened two businesses in West Berlin. The first was a clothing store which helped them to finance the second business -- an agency dedicated to the finding and reunification of other victims of the Holocaust. -- Byrd
