By Emanuel Salinas
Marion's aunt and uncle, Toby and Jacob, left for Canada in the summer of 1948. Marion and her father left on September 30th, 1948. They sailed over to Quebec City, Canada on October 10th, 1948 on the SS Scythia. Marion’s welcoming to Canada was…

By Emanuel Salinas
After the war, Jews were returning home and many Poles did not like it. Antisemitism was still going around strong and it got to the point where vigilante groups were forming to get rid of the Jews in the country. Many Jews were left fearing for…

By Emanuel Salinas
Due to the danger level increasing, the Ropelewskas decided to send their carriage driver, Pan Jan, to take Marion as far away from Opatów as possible. Pan Jan eventually arrived in a town called Klimintov, a devote Catholic center. Pan placed…

By Emanuel Salinas
On September 1942, Meyer went to go see one of the landowners with whom the family had done business for many years, Mr. Ropelewska. Mr. Ropelewska had two of his own children but had recently married a younger wife whom he had no children with.…

By Emanuel Salinas
Marion Weinzweig was born on the 3rd January 1941, exactly nine months after her parents gotten married. She was much loved by her new lengthy family. It was during this time that the Germans opened slave labor camps in which Jews were forced to…