Date of Birth: May 12, 1903 Dora Priever resided with her husband Schama, and their two children in Paris, France. As a busy homemaker, Dora worked hard to create a wonderful home life for her family. She kept the house very clean and was a wonderful...
Christopher Marian Ballaban was born in Boryslaw, Poland. Born Marian, he took the name Christopher upon his baptism at the age of 16. Chris grew up in a loving family. His father was very patriotic, and Chris adopted his father’s love of Poland. In October...
Cesare was born in Napoli, Italy. His Jewish mother, Margit, was a Hungarian ballerina and his Roman Catholic father, Pasquale, was a famous orchestra director and music composer. They baptized Cesare and brought him up as a Catholic. In 1938, the Italian government issued anti-Semitic...
Carla Meijer Benninga was born in 1928 in The Hague. Her family stayed there until they, like the rest of the Jewish Dutch, were forced to relocate to Amsterdam. Upon the beginning of the war in Holland in May 1940, Carla’s family attempted to leave...
Benjamin “Benno” Benninga was born in the Leeuwardern, Holland. Prior to the war the family was very well off due to Mr. Benninga’s shortening company. In 1940, they moved to Bussum and then Amsterdam two years later. In Amsterdam they moved in with friends and...
Beatrix was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. Her family belonged to a reform temple and she attended Sunday school. When she began high school, anti-Semitism was growing. Her father was arrested in either 1937 or ‘38 but returned home shortly after. During Kristallnacht, Beatrix...
Annemarie was born in 1922 in Berlin, Germany. She was a “mischling,” the child of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. Her father was a successful corporate attorney who worked for the German steel and heavy metal industry. She experienced anti-Semitism at her school. Annemarie's...
Anneliesse was born in 1937 in Leipzig, Germany. She was five when she and her parents went into hiding and eight at the end of the war. In Liepzig they hid, always together, in thirteen different homes. The family left Leipzig in 1944 for Blundez, Austria....
Before the war, Anneliese had a comfortable childhood in a small town in Czechoslovakia. In 1940, Anneliese and her family were relocated to a Jewish ghetto. In 1941, the Gestapo took Anneliese’s parents. She never saw them again. In 1942, the remaining Jews from her ghetto...
Anne Zvibelman was born Hannah Taffet in 1937 in the small town of Zbaraz in Poland. She was raised in a Jewish family. Before the war, she lived a comfortable life but Anne did not recall much about her day to day life. Anne’s life shifted...