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Ilonka & Ludovit 1945.png
Susan and her mother holding hands together in July 1945, and her parents together in 1945.

Sue & Peter.jpg
Susan and her mother holding hands together in July 1945, and her parents together in 1945.

Family portraits of Susan and Peter Lederman together and with their family.

Jagos Rescuers .jpg
A photograph of Wilma and Pavol Jagos, who hid Susan in the Summer of 1944 in Siladice, Czechoslovakia. They inscribed the postcard to Susan and Peter Lederman in 1964.

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Lutheran Book 1.jpg
Susan received this hymnal with an image of Jesus Christ. She carried the book to "hide in plain sight." She does not recall when she wrote her name on the interior cover.

Trnava Church.jpeg
The interior and exterior of the Lutheran Church in Trnava, Slovakia, where Susan was taken to be baptized in 1943. The family hoped baptism would protect her from the Nazis and their collaborators. She also received baptismal papers as evidence of…

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After German and Slovak pressures, Czechoslovakia became Czech-Slovakia in 1938 after the Munich Pact, meaning the country had to surrender its border and defenses to Nazi Germany. On March 15, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Czech provinces under the…

Ilonka & Ludovit 1945.png
Ilonka and Ludovit Sturc pictured together in 1938. Ludovit owned a print shop, which made the family exempt from deportation. However, in 1941, his business was "Aryanized."

The Reich Family (maternal side) circa 1920. Susan's mother, Ilonka, is…

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Map showing the bombings directed at England during World War II by the Nazis.

Klagenfurt Photos Doris_13.jpg
A photograph of Doris's parents, Gertrude and Julius, in London, circa 1950.
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