camp pionki and immediately recognized him. and i went to his table and i said, sam, you are alive. this one guy jumped out from the house and came over to kiss me. you re my brother! you re my brother! reporter: sam and jack both inmates at that same camp, then separated without knowing the other s fate until now. oh, i was all excited. this was unusual. it s 79 years now. we re 97 years old! you think it s never going to happen, but it did happen. reporter: two holocaust survivors reuniting by chance nearly eight decades later. it was an amazing story. it got me a lot of hope, you know? a truly special connection. we re so glad they found each other. thanks for watching. i m whit johnson in new york. i ll see you on gma in the morning. have a great night.
finally tonight, two holocaust survivors from the same labor camp and the emotional chance reunion nearly 80 years later. e- it was terrible. hunger was the worst thing in the camp. reporter: sam ron is a 97-year-old holocaust survivor. during world war ii, he was sent to multiple concentration camps and one labor camp in poland called pionki. that camp was hard work, very little food. reporter: these are actual photos of him and his family before and after their time in those camps. this is after the war. we all survived. reporter: now living in florida, he was recently the honorary speaker at an event hosted by the u.s. holocaust memorial museum. we emerged from the ashes, from the fires. reporter: sam had no idea what a surprise awaited him. among the 400 people attending, someone he hadn t seen in 79 years. jack waksal heard sam talk about