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Anna Primas and Sam Gun at the Israeli embassy in Ukraine, where Anna was pre-
sented with Righteous Among the Nations honors from Yad Vashem for her fam-
ily’s bravery in hiding Sam’s father and uncle.

a ceremony commemorating the 4,000
Jewish villagers murdered in the town,
ou’re wasting your time and
including their family.
money, Jack Gun told his son
Following the memorial, the Guns,
Sam, who was trying to locate
with help from the mayor, went door
the two families that
to door — pictures in
hid his father and
hand — but never found
uncle during the
the families. One couple,
Holocaust.
they learned, passed
Sam Gun, a West
away. No one had infor-
Bloomfield gastroen-
mation about the other
terologist, searched dil-
family.
igently for nearly two
Twenty years after
years to track down
Jack and Anszel’s trip,
any family members.
Sam Gun was sitting
He had names and
in the back of an audi-
some information
torium listening to his
about the towns where
dad talk to an attentive
they may have lived,
group of high school
but every potential
students, when one of
lead led nowhere. Even
them asked why, with
the Ukrainian genealo-
today’s technology, it
gist he hired reached
was still so hard to locate
Jan Primas was the man who
what they initially
these families. That’s
hid the Gun brothers until they
thought was a dead
when Sam got involved
were liberated.
end.
and ultimately found the
In 1992, Jack, also
genealogist.
of West Bloomfield, and his brother,
Unfortunately, after a thorough search,
Anszel, tried to locate the families that
there was little additional information.
hid the brothers after their parents and
Two possible sons were found, but the
sister were murdered by Nazi soldiers.
Gun brothers thought it was the wrong
That was the year they returned to their
family because they only knew of two
birthplace, Rozyszcze, a small village in
daughters. They decided to end their
Poland (now part of Ukraine) to attend
search.

Jennifer Lovy | Contributing Writer

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