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…
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…
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.
Hilda Goldsmith, the mother of Rickey G. Slezak, was born on October 8, 1922, in Gelnhausen, Germany. At the age of 17, she escaped Nazi Germany and arrived in the United States sometime between 1939-1940 alone.
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…