Long lost brother

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Menachem B. is seen here both in the present, and in the past.                                                     

Menachem Bodner does not remember the horrors he suffered as an experiment subject of Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz but he knows he had a twin brother and deep down he always believed he was alive somewhere. Now, with the help of a genealogist, the 72-year-old has proof that his brother, Jolli, survived the camp, and has enlisted the Internet to help find him, the Daily Beast reports.

The search began when Ayana KimRon spotted a post from Bodner's partner's cousin on a genealogical message board, and found a Nazi record showing a pair of twins who were "identified as having been liberated at Auschwitz."
                                                          

After a host of leads and dead ends, KimRon created a Facebook page titled "A7734," Bodner's brother's tattoo number. Within a day a photo of the young Bodner was shared 23,000 times (now almost 48,000) with 1.13 million views.

 

"I'm going to maximize the Internet," KimRon promises, with a Twitter account up and a YouTube channel in the works. There have been no leads to Jolli but KimRon has found nearly 70 of Bodner's extended family members.

 

"I was shocked," says Bodner, who lives in a suburb of Tel Aviv. "I thought that nobody would look for me. I had a dream to find someone. It made my dreams come true."