Jul 12, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min · 14 segments
Reb Yitzchok Gniwisch survived World War II as a young infant together with his father and lives today in Montreal with his wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. In this episode, he…
Yitzchok GniwischGuest
Bentzi AvtzonHost
So we were, we were having dinner earlier, and you were beginning to share your story, which, which made it, which made it impossible to not ask again for us to have this conversation.
Let's begin from where you were talking about, about the amazing story of how your family was saved really by the Germans.
Well, we, uh, ori- originally lived in Sanz before the war, my whole family.
And when the war broke out, and apparently the Germans sold to the Russians because they were, l'chatchila they were going together.
They sold 100,000 Jewish slaves to be transported to Russia to cut down the forests and, uh, provide them with, with, uh, wood for, for heating and so on.
And the way it happened that we ended up in Russia was that my father was coming back from somewhere.
He was coming home, and the Germans already parked this cattle train in the train station.
And wherever they saw a Jew, they just caught him, and they made him go into those trains.
My father was coming home from somewhere, and apparently they saw him coming.
So we were, we were having dinner earlier, and you were beginning to share your story, which, which made it, which made it impossible to not ask again for us to have this conversation.
Let's begin from where you were talking about, about the amazing story of how your family was saved really by the Germans.
Well, we, uh, ori- originally lived in Sanz before the war, my whole family.
And when the war broke out, and apparently the Germans sold to the Russians because they were, l'chatchila they were going together.
They sold 100,000 Jewish slaves to be transported to Russia to cut down the forests and, uh, provide them with, with, uh, wood for, for heating and so on.
And the way it happened that we ended up in Russia was that my father was coming back from somewhere.
He was coming home, and the Germans already parked this cattle train in the train station.
And wherever they saw a Jew, they just caught him, and they made him go into those trains.
My father was coming home from somewhere, and apparently they saw him coming.
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