"You were my wife"

From the Lekarev Report:

Amazing True Story

A very close friend of one of my friends, recently went to a wedding in New Jersey. A Jewish wedding.

Before the ceremony, both families were on the stage or bima. The parents of the bride and groom had previously met, but the grandparents who were all alive and in their 80's had never met before the wedding. The grandfather of the bride kept looking and looking at the grandmother of groom. He finally said to her, "You were my wife." There was dead silence and he repeated, "You were my wife."

After talking to each other, they confirmed that they had indeed been married when they were very young. They'd had no children and were taken to the concentration camps where they were separated. Both looked for each other after the war ended but not finding each other, each one presumed the other dead. Since most of their relatives were wiped out, they had no one to check with and records were almost non-existent.

Fast forward sixty years plus - Both had moved to the United States, married and had families of their own and there they were in New Jersey, watching the grandchildren of their new families marry each other - once again becoming family.