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Selma's and Edith's parents, Lina and Samuel Tennenbaum walk together in town.

Selma and Edith pose for a school picture.

At an outdoor cafe, a young Edith sits among her parent's friends (left) while Selma stands with their mother and father (right).

Selma and Edith pose with their childhood friend, Wusia Weinstock.

Selma and Edith sit together on the steps for a photograph.

The Drancy camp was a multistory complex that imprisoned and deported a majority of Jews from France. The U-shaped building was initially built in the 1930s as a housing project. Approximately 70,000 prisoners passed through Drancy between August…

Portrait photographs of Jules and Valentine Alexander, parents of Monique, Simone, and Michline.

Pictured are Edith Shapiro, born in 1935, and Selma Rossen, born in 1936, in Zloczów, Poland. The sisters were hidden children during the duration of the war. With their parents, they immigrated to the United States in 1946.

Heinz Dreifuss, born March 21, 1923, in Mannheim, Germany, escaped to the United States on the Veendam steamship on July 26, 1938. He returned to Germany as part of the American Army, experienced D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, and liberated one…