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Portrait photograph of Susan Lederman as a young girl before the war in Czechoslovakia. Susan was a hidden child during World War II and the Holocaust.

Zuzana (Susi) Spitzer was born March 6, 1931 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. She was deported to Theresienstadt (Terezin) with her parents Gretle née Buchsbaum and Hugo Spitzer on September 30, 1942. All three died on October 5, 1942, at the Treblinka…

Today, the former Złoczów synagogue's remains are a dirt path and a single pipe.

"Active Membership" cards from the Union Nationale des Associations de Déportés, Internes et Familles de Disparus (National Union of Associations of Deportees, Internees, and Families of the Disappeared). The cards recorded that Monique was an…

The German authorities deported Minna "Sara" Ledermann (née Brüll), Peter's grandmother, from Arnstadt, Germany, to Theresienstadt on October 18, 1942. Less than three months later, Minna died in the ghetto-camp at the age of 69.

Peter's…

When the bombs first fell, and the Nazis forced Jews from their homes for deportations and shootings, the Tennenbaums hid in a cellar. After some time, Samuel felt it was safer to move and hide in the attic of their grandfather’s factory. The…

The Tennenbaum family home in Złoczów, Poland (present-day Ukraine).

Susan and her mother holding hands together in July 1945, and her parents together in 1945.

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…

The postcard sent to Monique from her youngest sister, Simone, showed the outside of the convent where she resided, possibly until the age of 6.