With her 104th birthday approaching, Shoshana Ovitz had one wish: that all her “children, grandchildren and descendants come together to the Western Wall” to celebrate.

Getting them all to come wasn’t easy. Some lived overseas; contact info was sketchy for others. In the end, organizers estimate that about 10% of the family didn’t make it.

But Ovitz still had roughly 400 offspring of various generations with her for the reunion — an awesome statement from an elderly Ausch­witz survivor to the Nazis who’d meant to kill her and render the Jews extinct.

The Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City was a fitting spot for the gathering: It is the last remnant of the Second Temple, built during the reign of King Herod, and thus one of Judiasm’s holiest sites. (Thanks to restrictions on Temple Mount access, it’s the holiest one where Jews can freely pray; world travelers by the thousands visit for that purpose.)

It symbolizes survival and triumph — as a piece of ancient heritage, and also one recovered in a bloody battle during Israel’s Six-Day War in 1967.

When the clan was gathered — men on one side, women on the other, per Orthodox tradition — they took a photo for the ages: one very old lady in a wheelchair, beaming, in the middle of her huge clan, from babies to white-bearded elders.

This is the triumph of life over death, and good over evil.