About Johnny Jablon Johnny (Ephroim) Jablon (né Jan Rothbaum) was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1927. After the war, Johnny lived in the Bindermichl DP camp in Austria. In 1948, as a war orphan, he immigrated to Montreal, where he still lives. Books by Johnny Jablon Carry the Torch / A Lasting Legacy by (author) Sam Weisberg & Johnny Jablon