In September 1939, George Lucius Salton's boyhood in Tyczyn, Poland, was shattered by the German occupation. He suffered hunger and deprivation, a forced march to the Rzeszow ghetto, then eternal separation when he and his brother were left behind to labour in work camps while their parents were deported in boxcars to die in Belzec.

In September, 1939, George Lucius Salton's boyhood in Tyczyn, Poland, was shattered by escalating violence and terror under German occupation. His father, a lawyer, was forbidden to work, but eleven-year-old George dug potatoes, split wood, and resourcefully helped his family. They suffered hunger and deprivation, a forced march to the Rzeszow ghetto, then eternal separation when fourteen-year-old George and his brother were left behind to labor in work camps while their parents were deported in boxcars to die in Belzec