WWII couple reunite after 66 years

26th November 2010

Sara Marmurek was exported to Auschwitz

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A Jewish lady and the Polish man who helped her survive during the holocaust have been reunited for the first time since 1944.

Wladyslaw Misiuna was just 15-years-old when he took a job raising rabbits for food, in one of the wings of the labour camp where Sara Marmurek was being held.

It was here that he began to help her and other prisoners, by providing them with food, medicines and above all, mental support.

When the camp was liquidated in 1944, Marmurek was shipped to Auschwitz. Misiuna was subsequently tortured by the Nazis who had discovered the help he had been providing for the camp’s inmates.

After the war, Misiuna relocated to Canada and started a family in Toronto ...

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