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years old. “She was basically my first
friend,” he said in a recent telephone
interview.
“Hardly anybody even knows about
this camp in New York State,” he
continued. But Curry had learned
about Oswego and became interested
in the story.
Staff of the Safe Haven Museum
and Education Center, housed in a
former camp administration building,
contacted people who lived there who
are still alive today, including Alalouf.
“The only person I really remember
was this little girl next door,” he told
the show’s producers.
Let us look into it, they said.
Things seemed to be on hold, but
one day he received a call from Blink
Entertainment in London.
“At first I thought it was a con,”
Alalouf recalled. He spoke with
them, sent a copy of a presentation
that he has made in Florida and then
interviewed with the producers over
Skype.
Eventually, he and the show’s
producers went to Oswego. “There
on the wall was my family’s name
and everything.” The producers then
told Alalouf he would be meeting a
Maryland man who was at the same
camp with him and lived next door.
“On the way down to Maryland
they told me it’s going to be quite
emotional,” he said.
The producers were right.
In Maryland, Alalouf met the man
and showed him a photo of the girl
he remembered from long ago — a
picture of the two in the snow.
“That’s my sister,” the man said.
“Is she alive?” Alalouf asked.
Yes, he replied; she lives a couple
of miles from here, but she was on a
cruise in Alaska. Her name was Flora.
Viewers can see how Ben and
Flora eventually met in Nashville’s
Centennial Park on the We’ll Meet
Again episode titled “Surviving the
Holocaust” that airs 7 p.m. Tuesday,
Nov. 20, on PBS.
Alalouf said he enjoyed meeting
Curry. “She was warm, accepting and
professional.”
He then continues the story of his
and Flora’s reunion.
“The last time I saw her, I was 5.
I’m 77 today,” he said.
They stayed there for a while in the
park, then had lunch in downtown
Nashville with her brother and sister-
in-law and Alalouf ’s wife. Then Flora
and her family came to the Alaloufs’
home, talking late into the night. “It’s
as if we had known each other all our
lives,” Alalouf said. “We have become
very close friends.” He says he and
Martha plan to meet up with Flora in
Florida this year.
Over the years, Alalouf has spoken
about his experiences in the camp to
church groups, school children and at
a Holocaust center in Naples. During
his 49 years in the West Bloomfield
area, he also spoke frequently at
the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills. He was a member
of Temple Israel and an avid runner,
completing 21 marathons. Alalouf
retired in 2009 as a high school
administrator in Garden City Schools.
He graduated from Murray State
University in Kentucky, where he met
his wife.
“I was born in a bomb shelter in
Yugoslavia,” Alalouf said. “I consider
myself to be extremely fortunate.” ■