Renata and Michal Hornstein

Renata and Michal Hornstein were near-victims of the Nazi death machine in Poland who became Canadian millionaires, putting their wealth to the public good. Renata Witelson was born in Lodz, Poland, and spent her youth evading death. Her family fled the Nazis to the Warsaw ghetto where the parents were captured and later murdered. Escaping to Krakow and then Budapest, Renata hid in a convent and with a Polish family, until she was able to reach a safe house in Pressburg (now Bratislava).Michal