Young Geddy’s nightmares at horror stories
Feb 2, 2021
Gary, who later became rock legend Geddy Lee, grew up hearing horrific tales of his parents’ time in concentration camps.
“It’s a teenager’s job to rebel against their parents. After I had moved out of home and gone my own way, I appreciated more what they had gone through and I was able to see them more clearly as people.”
The pair didn’t know each other when they were intially interned in a labour camp in their hometown of Staracohwice, Poland, in 1941.
The couple were reunited after the war and lived in the officers’ quarters of Bergen-Belsen after it was turned into a displaced-persons camp. They were also among 2,000 couples who married in the camp after liberation.
“My dad’s side lost almost everybody,” Geddy said. “He had eight brothers and sisters. He lost his parents and I think only one brother and one sister survived.
The family visited Manya’s hometown and saw the house in which she was raised.
“I felt sad at the loss of so many family members, but it is just a lesson of life that you take with you and count your blessings. It makes you aware of how lucky you are.”
Geddy, married to Nancy, has told his own children, Julian and Kyla, about the Holocaust, but “I haven’t taken them over there yet to see it for themselves. I want to”.
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