Walter Spier and Werner Reich first met at Auschwitz in 1944.

Born in 1927, the two teenagers found themselves in the same line waiting to receive their numbers at the concentration camp.

Their names were written down and someone gave them each a tattoo with a characteristic number on their forearms.

This was their “ID” number.

They were lucky, as one of them explained in an interview a few years ago, because the guy who tattooed them did a pretty decent job.

The two were ten numbers apart.

One being A1828 and the other one A1838.

This means they were in the same line.

The teens were brought together during the terrifying experiences they went through in the concentration camp more than seven decades ago.

They saw their loved ones and strangers being killed in front of them, they were brutally abused, and sharing the experience made them feel closer than brothers.

Walter was taken to Terezin with his family.

His parents were killed.

His brother was taken, too. Being the only survivor in his family, he was then taken to the Sosnowiec concentration camp.

There, he was sent on a death march heading to Mauthausen.

He was one of the lucky ones who were freed by the United States forces on May 5, 1945.

Werner’s story was different but similar.

Werner was arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo.

After doing time in jail in Terezin, he spent time in Auschwitz II before being transferred to Auschwitz I, where he met his friend, Walter.

And, just like his friend, he was sent on a seven-day death march before being liberated on the same day.

The two men, after liberation, went on with their lives and they did not meet again until 2017 when Walter’s son found out about Werner’s story.

He got in touch with Beth Tefillah and the Congregation Ahavat Achim of Fair Lawn, and they arranged a reunion of the two Holocaust survivors.

It was a powerful, emotional reunion.

When Walter and Werner saw each other again, they immediately felt a connection.

They had spent a short time together, but it was all so intense that it can never be forgotten.

They shared so many stories.

They talked to an independent video journalist, Sandi Bachom, who also uploaded their story on YouTube.

The elderly men recalled how they were treated by the Nazis during the war.

They narrated heartbreaking stories.

But they also joked about being lucky to have a pretty neat tattoo on their arms.

According to experts, Holocaust survivors suffered such trauma that their brain function was affected.

They are even looking into these alterations being inherited by their offspring.

See Walter and Werner embrace each other for the first time since 1944 in the video below!

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Source: YouTube – Sandi Bachom, Earth