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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…

Photograph One: Heinz at the age of 3
Photograph Two: Heinz with his sister Margot during Christmas, 1932
Photograph Three: Heinz with Anita's grandmother, the last known photograph of him.
Tragically, Heinz was murdered by the Nazis and their…

For Christmas in 1943, Dr. Sturges gifted an early edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), which he inscribed to Doris.

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.

The French consulate gave Monqiue a new passport while she was in Israel in the 1950s.

Laissez-Passer (papers) from the Consulate General of France in Jerusalem allowed Monique to return to France from Israel since she secretly left without papers.

The Certificate de Nationalité (Certificate of Nationality) confirmed Monique's citizenship in France.

"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 Office National des Anciens Combattants et Victims de Guerre (The National Office for Veterans and Victims of War) sent a "certificate of disappearance" concerning Monique's mother, Valentine. The certificate did not recognize that she died at…

By May 1942, the German military commander in France ordered all Jews over 6 to wear a yellow star. The star, about the size of a person's palm, had the inscription, Juif ("Jew" in French). Monique did not wear the identity badge because she hid…