Benjamin Gurman was about 6 years old when a young refugee girl named Sandra came to live with his family in University City. She arrived during World War II as a Holocaust survivor, part of the wave of Jewish children displaced by the war and placed with American families.
“He’s told us she was like a sister,” said his grandson, Noah Beadle. “He remembers going with her to school, spending summers together, and for the only time in his childhood, not feeling alone.”
Then she was gone…