Mr. Robert Sandler's class also met Sally Frishberg, “The Polish Anne Frank” who hid in haystacks with her family outside their town until their neighbor Stanislav Grocholski rescued them. Stanislav a Polish catholic hid Sally and her family of twelve in his attic for two years. Sally and her family survived eating potatoes and beans. Sally returned to Poland in 1987 and met Stanislav’s children and together they honored him as a Righteous Gentile in Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.
The class met George Bear, who since he grew up with Polish nannies & had blonde hair & blue eyes survived by posing as a Polish catholic boy. George lived outside the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw but was constantly in fear of being exposed as a Jew. He and his mother finally went to a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany before immigrating to America, where George lived on a chicken farm in New Jersey (a settlement funded by Jewish Zionist philanthropists to prepare Jews for agricultural life in Israel). (photos courtesy of Mr. Sandler)
