Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day
Mon, Apr 13
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Carrying Testimony From Generation to Generation
Time & Location
Apr 13, 2026, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
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About the event
NO RSVP REQUIRED
We are joined by Francine Gerstein who will be presenting the history of her aunt, Myrna Sandler.
Myrna Sandler was born on December 17, 1927 in Lutsk, 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 also in 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…
