Obit of the Day: The Strangest Twin Story EverOskar and Jack were born on January 16, 1933, in Trini

Obit of the Day: The Strangest Twin Story EverOskar and Jack were born on January 16, 1933, in Trinidad. Just six months later the identical twins were separated. Oskar was taken to Germany, with an older sister and his German Catholic mother. Jack would stay in Trinidad with his Romanian Jewish father.Jack would watch World War II unfold from afar through newsreels at the local movie theater. Oskar was in the heart of the Third Reich and became a true believer, joining the Hitler Youth all while keeping his father’s heritage a secret.Later Jack would move to Israel at the recommendation of an aunt, the lone survivor of the Holocaust on his father’s side of the family. Moving there at age sixteen, he joined the Israeli Defense Forces within a few years.The former Nazi and the Israeli military man met for the first time when they were 21. They never hit it off. Not only for their stark differences (Oskar told jack to hid his Israeli luggage tags to avoid conflict with anti-Semitic relatives) but also their striking similarities. Both men were balding and sported similar mustaches and wore similar wire-rimmed glasses and identical sports coats. They interrogated each other over their choice of clothing with Jack asking, “Oskar you are wearing the same shirt and same glasses. Why?”Never warming up to each other, the twins would not meet again for twenty-five years when Oskar contacted Jack about participating in a study of twins at the University of Minnesota. The psychologists leading the study were simply amazed; never before had they met twins with such dramatic differences in upbringing. And yet the two men had quite a lot in common including reading books back-to-front, wearing rubber bands on their wrists, and frightening people in elevators with loud sneezing.Through all that, the two remained disconnected. Jack was asked whether he loved Oskar and answered, “Love each other? We don’t even know if we liked each other.”Oskar Stohr died in 1997 from lung cancer. Jack did not attend his funeral.Jack Yufe, who ran a clothing store outside of San Diego for decades, died on November 9, 2015 at the age of 82.Sources: LA Times, AP, Washington Post(Image of Jack Yufe, left, and Oskar Stohr, undated but circa 1980s, is copyright Robert Lachman/Los Angeles Times and courtesy of the Times)Other twins on Obit of the Day:William Baron - He and his brother Wilbur were tap dancing starsThe Reister Brothers - Identical twin monks who died on the exact same dayChang and Eng Bunker - The original “Siamese twins” -- source link

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