philip also immigrated to the united states just like the rabinovitz family dead. brooklyn and he sits next to this young women. it turns out that she knows this family that once saved a boy there. he is sitting there and he thinks, what's the story? tell me how it happened. she tells him and he says, that was me, i'm the boy. minutes later, he runs to a pay phone and makes a phone call. so begins this reunion between the two families. miriam saved philip. on a visit to hartford where they were living, he meets miriam's oldest daughter ruth who is no longer a little girl, she's a teenager. reporter: she changed her name from what it was in poland. >> yes. she's now ruth. he started writing her letters. it took two years but eventually they fell madly in love. that started a whole another family and romance. reporter: you got to know them because you have a very personal connection to the family. tell us about that. >> in addition to meeting miriam's daughter ruth and falling in love with her, philip became a rabbi. my family, from the time i was five years old, att