Thanks, so am I. Otherwise I wouldn't be here too. You're right. My mother did this around '46/'47 in her mid 20's. She said there was just wire fences at the time. She went over and back with another woman. A friend told them the exact time the Soviets changed guards. It gave them a window of a few minutes to make their move. All this for belongings. But then again she lost her apartment, family home & family farmhouse in Lithuania. I actually saw the 2 storey family house when I went there with mum in 95 one year before she passed away. And she also managed to retrieve a few family photo albums going back to the 20s & 30s. My brother still has them. Includes some fantastic shots of the nazi army in action too.
They are not jews, the thing is their grandparents were once jews so now by the israeli law they are allowed to be israeli citizens. I guess their parents made them come to Israel but anyway we now consider to change the law.