13-year-old boy, Holocaust survivor strike up friendship as museum volunteers
SKOKIE, Ill. -- Janine and Dhilan come from very different worlds and generations—but know in their hearts that friendship has no limit.Janine is 98 years old and comes from Viloof, Poland. Dhilan is 13, and comes from Barrington, Illinois. But the pair are not only best of friends—they're colleagues too.They both volunteer behind the welcome desk at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie —and invited CBS 2 to hang out with them one recent Sunday.
'I was able to tell him what I suffered during the war, and he was able to accept it, and he didn't reject it, and I could talk to him,' Janine said, 'and I think that was very important.'Part of Janine's mission is to tell her story to people who visit the museum.'You watch the movies. You read the books,' said Christian Batallas. 'To walk in here today and see Janine is here, it was incredible.
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