When the ghetto in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland was liquidated, Slava Cymer Fintel was separated from her family but ultimately found her sister, Tzila. They fled to the family farm of a Polish friend’s, Piotr Belevich. The girls hid in a hole in the barn covered in hay that Piotr had dug. Eventually, Tzila was allowed to go into the house as a “Polish cousin”. Slava remained in hiding in the barn alone for the rest of the summer.

Learn more of Slava and Tzila’s remarkable story of hiding and survival thanks to the kindness of strangers, as told by Slava’s son, Steve Fintel, on November 10 at 2pm.