Yom HaShoah

Wednesday, April 23, 7:00 pm

Service and Commemoration: Myrna Sandler’s story is told by her nieces.

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Myrna Sandler was born on December 17, 1927, in Luck, Poland. She lived there with her brother, Ben Gerstein, and their parents, Shea and Bayla. When the Nazis invaded Eastern Poland in 1941, they were forced out of their home into the city ghetto. From there, a Polish farmer named Mr. Jarmoszko and his family hid them in a haystack from the fall of 1942 to the winter of 1943. After that, for almost one year, a Czech farmer named Mr. Cepek, and his family hid them in the attic of his barn and a wooden bunker buried under the ground. Because of these extraordinary people, Myrna and her family survived the Holocaust. Following their liberation, they spent three years in a displaced persons camp in Germany. Myrna and Ben’s father, Shea, died of a massive stroke after helping to save his whole family. Myrna, Ben and their mother Bayla immigrated to Toronto in 1948. They worked hard, rebuilt their lives and had families of their own.