By Gary Koeppel
“She told me that the girl in the photos was transported from Prague to England around 1939… all she knew was that her name was Alexandra, she was the daughter of my paternal grandfather’s sister, and that she was placed in the home of a British family.”
By Michael Diamant
“She found Norbert hiding in the utility room of her Stanislawow farm, hiding from execution, from certain death. She told Norbert he could stay and she hid him on her family farm for three years, at great danger to herself.”
“It is sometimes only through these secondary sources that the little details of an individual can be learned. ‘He had a beautiful singing voice’; ‘she had bright red hair’; ‘he loved animals’; these kinds of details—not present in the ‘hard’ data—humanize our ancestors and breathe life back into what is otherwise merely a name on a record.”