(Jewish Group) In Poland, Canadian Holocaust survivor returns to native village as sole local Jew [View all]

When Sol Nayman left this village in 1939, it had a small but thriving Jewish community that coexisted harmoniously with its non-Jewish neighbors.

But not long after the departure of Nayman, who is now 87, and his family, German troops murdered the entire community, adding it to the long list of Polish municipalities where the Holocaust ended centuries of Jewish presence.

Nayman’s family fled eastward, ending up in a Soviet labor camp before they eventually settled in Canada, where Nayman became a successful businessman and co-founded the Club Monaco chain of men’s fashion stores.

But Nayman had long wondered what became of the family home and the village where he grew up and experienced his last moments of careless childhood, which was cut short by the horrendous realities of life through World War II in Eastern Europe.

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