Holocaust survivor reunites with his US Army liberator

In 1945, Sid Shafner, a member of the U.S. Army with the 42nd Infantry Division, liberated Marcel Levy from Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany. This month -- just over seventy years later -- the two met again.

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces sponsored the Denver, Colorado resident and his family on an eight-day trip to Israel and Poland as part of it's "From Holocaust to Independence" delegation to Poland and Israel. The World War II veteran was honored at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony for his helping to set approximately 30,000 prisoners free. Marcel Levy was one of those who is alive today as a result of the Allied Forces' heroic and compassionate efforts.

In an interview with ABC, Peter Weintraub, president of the organization who sponsored the trip, said the two men met for the first time when Shafner's convoy was stopped near Marcel Levy who asked that Shafner and his men leave their route and help the prisoners - to which they agreed. The two men became friends.

On May, 10th at an Israeli military base, Levy, 90, who walks with a cane and Shafner, 94, who is in a wheelchair - had a reunion filled with tearful embraces that was captured on camera. Weintraub told ABC that Levy told Shafner, "Everything I have today, all of my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, is due to you, Sid."

This was the first time the organization reunited a survivor with his or her liberator.

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