Three Holocaust survivors reconnected for the first time in 76 years Sunday at Young Israel of New Hyde Park as about 100 people gathered for the historic reunion.

Michael Epstein of Fair Lawn, N.J.; Abe Rosenberg of Queens; and his sister Ada Gracin of Melville, L.I., were children at Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany.

Feldafing was the first all-Jewish DP camp and was originally a summer camp for Hitler Youth, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It sat 20 miles southwest of Munich and held about 4,000 Jewish people in 1946, dropping to 1,585 Jewish DPs by Passover 1951. It was closed in March 1953 by the German government, which was given control in 1951.

“Although we lacked many things, I never felt deprived,” said Gracin, 87, according to Newsday. “The survivors cherished each child as if they were theirs. We were precious jewels to them as many had lost their own children. I felt comforted to have my small family together. No more fear of being separated. No more fear of my parents being arrested.”  

Both families were at the Feldafing camp.

Epstein and Rosenberg were brought together by a videographer for the “Names Not Numbers” project, an oral Holocaust history film and curriculum program created by educator Tova Fish-Rosenberg. 

The videographer who was working with Epstein for an interview on the project realized he had seen the same photograph from Feldafing last year when working on parts of the program featuring Rosenberg. 

“It’s a miracle,” Epstein told Newsday. “It’s unbelievable actually. Not only the connection, but also that we went to [the same college], we worked together without knowing each other and we each have nice families.”

Both families came to New York in 1949, with Epstein’s settling in the Bronx and Rosenberg’s in Brooklyn, and both men are graduates of City College of New York.

Avigayil Geller, Epstein’s granddaughter, told Newsday her grandfather’s story lets him connect with the past to this day.

“My grandfather doesn’t have any family other than his parents and one cousin who survived the Holocaust,” she said. “By creating awareness and sharing his story, he’s able to reconnect with people [he knew back then] … It’s really meaningful to see that.”