Image of Aleksandra raking hay at farm, 1945 Aleksandra Ginzburg was born in Minsk, Belarus on February 4, 1930. On June 24, 1941, Minsk was bombed and part of the city burned. Aleksandra's mother decided to take her and her cousin to the suburbs surrounding the city where her uncle

Lia and her brother Max Born in 1934 in The Hague, Rosalia or “Lia” grew up in Scheveningen, which was a beach resort town. Lia had one older brother named Max. In May of 1940 when the German army invaded Holland, Lia and other Jews were forced to wear a

  Edna and her son, Jay Eta Ipp (Butrimowitz) was born in Butrimantz, Lithuania in 1911. She eloped in 1933, marrying Isroel Ipp, a young lawyer. The couple had a son, Yacob Ipp, on June 5, 1935. Eta and Isroel raised their son in Viliampole (Slobodka), Lithuania near both Eta’s

Theodore (Ted) Lehman was born July 25, 1927 in Sosnowiec, Poland. His family spent time in Zawiercie, the home of his maternal grandmother, and moved to Gdynia in 1934. When the Nazis invaded Poland, the family moved to Zawiercie to be together. The family were forced into the Zawiercie ghetto

Solomon “Sol” Zimm, 1946 Solomon “Sol” Zimm was born in Kolo, Poland to Mencham and Shaina Ziemniak. He was one of nine siblings. During the Holocaust, Solomon was sent to a number of labor and concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Solomon was liberated in 1945 after surviving a two

Halina Drexler (later Zimm) Halina Drexler (later Zimm) grew up in Lodz, Poland, with her parents and two sisters, Helen and Nana. In Poland life was pleasant until Nazis invaded the country in 1939. The invasion closed schools and Jews were forced to wear the Yellow Star. Recognizing the eminent

Alan (center) and friends, 1937 Born in Kolo, Poland in 1920, Alan Zimm could not have imagined that his hometown would one day lie near Chelmno, the site where the Nazis first experimented with the use of poison gas to exterminate Jews. At the beginning of World War II, Alan

Roger Loria Roger’s first brush with danger came three weeks after his birth, in 1940 when Nazis occupied Antwerp, Belgium. His father, Willy, was a Polish national. Having worked in the diamond trade, he hollowed a toothbrush handle and filled it with diamonds – before he was arrested and deported

Agnes and Robert Heller Agnes Sekely (later Heller) was ten years old in March 1944 when Germany invaded Budapest,Hungary. Her father was warned by friends about impending deportations and he immediately startedmaking plans to go into hiding. Agnes spent the summer at an estate where her family was hiding in