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Peter with his mother and Peter's parents, Max and Mina, together.

Peter Lederman escaped to England from Nazi Germany after "Kristallnacht" (Night of Broken Glass).

After Kristallnacht, the Central British Fund for German Jewry (now World Jewish Relief) arranged with the British government for the rescue of about 4,000 Jewish men released from concentration camps. These refugees stayed in a former army base –…

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.

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.

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.

Michline (left) and Simone (in a carriage) sit with Monique.

Monique, pictured as a young child and with her pet dog at the age of 6.

Monique, pictured with her parents as a young child before the war.

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…