Growing up, Maralyn Turgel never truly understood why her father was the way he was, and what he'd actually been through.
All she was told was that her dad, Sam Gardner, a Holocaust survivor, had endured terrible experiences during World War II, lost all his family, and came to Manchester as a refugee.
His friends, also Polish refugees, had become his chosen family, which Maralyn knew as her 'uncles'. She also understood that her dad suffered from terrible nightmares and kept things bottled up - often told by her mother to not upset him.
