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Drancy Transit Camp
The Drancy camp was a multistory complex that imprisoned and deported a majority of Jews from France. The U-shaped building was initially built in the 1930s as a housing project. Approximately 70,000 prisoners passed through Drancy between August…
Jules and Valentine Alexander
Portrait photographs of Jules and Valentine Alexander, parents of Monique, Simone, and Michline.
Edith Shapiro and Selma Rossen (née Tennenbaum)
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 (at 15 years old)
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…
Peter Lederman
Peter Lederman escaped to England from Nazi Germany after "Kristallnacht" (Night of Broken Glass).
Monique Bental (née Alexander) (Mother of Pat Valentine Ziv)
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…
Otto (Tsvi) Izsak and Mauritiu (Moshe) Izsak (Uncles of Laurence Wagman)
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.
Zuzka (Susan) Lederman (née Sturc)
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.
Otto Zeichner (Cousin of Doris Schneider)
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 (née Weis)
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.