<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">BEACHWOOD, Ohio - The letter brought a bittersweet end to Sol Factor's 17-year search for his mother, a Holocaust survivor who disappeared in the aftermath of World War II: "We regret to inform you that we located the above mentioned person, but she would not like to be contacted by the inquirer," reads the message from Magen David Adom, the Israeli counterpart of the American Red Cross. Factor, who had found clues to his past with the help of the Red Cross and a vast archive of Nazi records, knows only that his mother, now 83 years old, is living in Israel. "Of course I'm disappointed because one likes searches like this to end with happy reunions," he said in an interview in his home in this Cleveland suburb. "There's a sense of actual relief too, because now some of the mystery has been solved," he said. Factor, 60, was born Meier Pollak in Munich, Germany, in 1946 to Romanian-born Rosa Pollak, also spelled Polak. He has found documents showing that Rosa Pollak and her newborn son were discharged from a maternity hospital on July 9, 1946, and soon after went to a United Nations-sponsored hospital for refugees in Munich. Within days they became separated. Factor was adopted in 1950 by an American couple in Belmont, Mass., and began looking for his biological mother in earnest in 1990.</div> Source Wow, great read there. Very sad, but that type of thing isn't surprising of course considering the time that it all happened. I can understand the woman not wanting to go through with a reunion because it has been so long and it seems all too much for someone in their 80's to really comprehend or take in. I don't mean that in an insulting way.
