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In December 1938, Doris received a passport, issued by the Third Reich, so she and her mother could join her father in England. The Nazis stamped the letter “J” for Jude (Jew) (not pictured) on the first page of the passport.

Doris’s husband, Alfred (Fred) Schneider, was also a child in Austria in the 1930s. In 1934 he made his own Waffen Pass (Weapons Permit). The handmade pass represents how Fred processed the growing tensions in Austria, from the 1934 February…

Postcards circa 1910 and 1932 showing Klagenfurt's Neuer Platz (city hall). Before the annexation of Austria, the Klagenfurt Neuer Platz was known as an example of the German Renaissance era. Two famous monuments, the Dragon (Lindwurm) (created to…

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

Left to right: Otto (Tsvi) Izak, born on December 25, 1941, and Mauritiu (Moshe) Izsak, born on December 26, 1939, were murdered in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp at the ages of three and five years old. They are the uncles of Laurence Wagman.

A postcard sent to Monique from her youngest sister, Simone, when she stayed at a convent after the war. Simone marked an "x" to show Monique where she slept. It is unknown how long she stayed at the convent, possibly until the age of 6.

A photograph of the "customs canal" in Marseille where Monique's father, Jules, worked as a ship chandler and owned a shop. When the Nazis invaded France, it was taken from him for "Aryanization."

Monique, pictured with her parents as a young child before the war.

Monique, pictured as a young child and with her pet dog at the age of 6.

Michline (left) and Simone (in a carriage) sit with Monique.