Ben Alalouf
and Ann Curry

A Special
Reunion

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Former Metro Detroiter to be featured on
PBS series We’ll Meet Again Nov. 20.

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hen the second season
of the PBS series We’ll
Meet Again starts up this
month, viewers will learn how two
Holocaust survivors were reunited
in Centennial Park in Nashville,
Tenn., more than 70 years after they
last saw each other.
The series, developed by
television journalist Ann Curry,
features reunions of people whose
lives crossed at pivotal moments.
One of this year’s stories, to air
on Nov. 20, belongs to longtime
Metro Detroiter Ben Alalouf, 77,
who moved with his wife, Martha,
to Middle Tennessee in 2013 to be
close to his daughter, Amy. The
Alaloufs spend half the year in

Tennessee and the other half in
Naples, Fla.
Born into a Jewish family in
former Yugoslavia in 1941, Ben
spent the first three years of his
life in hiding in Albania and Italy.
He, his older brother and parents
eventually escaped from Europe to
the United States after the Allies
liberated Italy in 1944.
From 1944-46, his family lived
in a refugee camp for Holocaust
survivors in Oswego, N.Y. There,
he met a little girl whose name he
remembered as Seeka. She and her
family were fellow refugees who
lived next door in the camp. His
family left Oswego and settled in
Brooklyn in 1946, when he was 5

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BY STEPHANIE BERGER, COURTESY OF PBS

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