David Rich

In David was in Lodz Poland when the war broke out he escaped to the Russian side of Poland and later to Russia itself where he spent the war years in Russia. In 1948 he married e Basia (Betty) Kohn who had also escaped to Russia. After the war they returned to Poland I believe and in the 1950 there were able to escape and immigrated to Toronto Canada where he had three aunts his father's sisters and a brother Jack. David and Betty had two children a son Charles (Chuck) and a daughter Susan. Tragically David drowned in a boating accident near Midland Ontario in 1971. He was in the company of his first cousin Vic Spence( Spiegel) , his wife Pauline and their son Peter.at the time. In 201i1 Betty's candid and riveting memoir "Little Girl Lost"was published by the Azrielli foundation. She tells the story of her early life in Poland,her escape in 1939 at the age of 16,to soviet -occupied Poland. Deported to a labour camp in the forests of northern Russia until her release in June '42 when Germany attacked Russia she spent the rest of the war . In various parts of Russia.Betty died in Toronto in 2017.