CARRY THE TORCH A LASTING LEGACY

Sam Weisberg (né Avraham Gajer) was born in Chorzów, Poland, in 1927. After his liberation in Bergen-Belsen, Sam worked as an interpreter in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons camp, liaising between the British soldiers and the Jewish police. Sam married in 1946 and immigrated to Toronto in 1959. In Toronto, Sam worked at Automatic Laundries Limited and later co-established a company called Promenade Builders. Sam has educated countless students about the Holocaust and was instrumental in establishing a Holocaust memorial monument in Toronto. Johnny (Ephroim) Jablon (né Jan Rothbaum) was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1927. After the war, Johnny spent three years in the Bindermichl DP camp in Austria before immigrating to Montreal as a war orphan. In Montreal, he worked in the garment industry, graduated from Sir George Williams University with a degree in electronics and then co-established Magic Touch TV Sales & Service. In 2018, Johnny is joining the educational tour March of the Living, which will be his first journey back to Poland since his liberation seventy-three years earlier.