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Monique Bental (née Alexander) was born in Marseille, France, on November 19, 1929. She was a hidden child with her grandmother and youngest sister, Simone, during the war. Monique's mother and father died at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp after…

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.

Monique's capstone paper titled "The Holocaust Generation, The Survivor Children," which she submitted to Professor Peter Katopes. She recognized early on the generational trauma of survivors and their children.

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.

Doris Schneider with her cousin Otto Zeichner. Otto died at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp on August 11, 1942. Doris escaped to England in December of 1938 with her mother, following her father after the events of Kristallnacht.

Papers issued by the Soviet Union allowed Lina and the children to move from eastern occupied Poland to western Poland. Samuel had to leave eastern Poland to secretly escape the communists.

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…

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.