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Map showing the bombings directed at England during World War II by the Nazis.

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

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…

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…

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 was holding her doll (pictured) when the Nazis entered her family's apartment flat during Kristallnacht. One Nazi swung an axe at Doris, but the doll head received the brunt of the impact, shattering it. Gertrude replaced the doll's head in…

During Kristallnacht in November 1938, the Nazis burned the Klagenfurt synagogue. The Torah scrolls were taken out to the street and burned, as well as the furniture. In 1944, a bomb destroyed part of the synagogue. In the aftermath of World War II,…

Doris with her parents, Gertrude and Julius, in 1938, shortly before fleeing to England.
Doris with her mother in Austria circa 1936.

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

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.