NEW YORK–In 1941, a poor Polish farmwoman travelled from the countryside to Israel Rubinek's village store, but found she didn't have enough money to pay for the things she needed.
Rubinek, a gregarious 21-year-old who sold kerosene, soap and shoelaces, told Zofia Banya not to worry: They'd settle up the next time she came to Pinczow, in German-occupied Poland, to sell butter and eggs.
It was wartime and hardly anyone offered credit. Who knew what life would be like a day later, let alone a week?
Read more: http://www.thestar.com/actsofkindness/article/741113--a-simple-act-of-kindness-saved-lives
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