(Jewish Group) In Poland, Canadian Holocaust survivor returns to native village as sole local Jew

[marble falls]

1. My friend Irvin's family was reduced to six people in Poland. He had his father's tailoring tools ..

... a brief case full of prewar photos. I never understood how his family could have kept these things going through the camps. He told me of when he was a child born here in the states, he was caught by his mother stuffing coins and dollars between the floorboard of their dining room, maybe at age three or four.

I found out later his mother and father and aunt and uncle at liberation from the camp walked back to their home and dug up things they had buried under the floors of their home when the Germans came for them. Then they walked to a displaced persons camp in West Germany.

It made the story of Irv hiding money very special to me.