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BBC The Repair Shop's Chris Shaw fights tears as he takes on 'most important challenge ever'


The Repair Shop's viewers spoke out on Wednesday after Chris Shaw took on his most 'important' challenge to date of repairing a Jewish prayer book that survived the Holocaust

The prayer book belonged to the grandparents of guest Gary Fisher, who lived in Vienna, Austria during the war (Image: BBC) Read MoreRelated Articles Inside the life of The Repair Shop's Sonnaz Nooranvary including childhood trauma Sadly, many other members of Gary’s family didn’t survive the camps, but his grandparents did and at the end of the war they were liberated along with the book (Image: BBC)Fans took to Twitter to share their emotional reactions to the item. Another fan insisted: "This is one episode that deserves a repeat - that Jewish book and poem is of historical significance and I challenge anyone not to get emosh #therepairshop."

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