BBC The Repair Shop's Chris Shaw fought back tears after he took on the task of repairing a Jewish prayer book that survived the Holocaust.The emotional episode aired on Wednesday, featuring Chris taking on his most 'important' challenge yet.The prayer book belonged to the grandparents of guest Gary Fisher, who lived in Vienna, Austria during the war.
Gary shared the heartbreaking story of how his father was one of the 10,000 children taken to England as part of the Kindertransport in 1938, while his grandparents were unable to leave the country.
In 1942, his grandparents were taken to Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Despite attempts to show the world that prisoners weren't being treated as badly as they were, Gary revealed that many of his family members were killed there.
Gary said: “My parents, they were in a concentration camp and they never knew when their time was going to be up, but they had their religion, they had their faith and that must have been a real comfort to them to never give up." Sadly, many other members of Gary’s family didn’t survive the camps, but his grandparents did and at the end of the war they were liberated along with the book.
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