Sophie’s parents, Daniel and Laura Schwarzwald, on a beach in Zaleszczyki, Poland.
(United States Holocaust Museum, courtesy of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)
Nazi reprisal execution of members of the Lvov ghetto Judenrat in September 1942, on the day that Daniel Schwarzwald disappeared.
(United States Holocaust Museum)
Document identifying Bronislawa Tymejko (the Christian alias of Laura Schwarzwald) as an employee of the Regional Agricultural Mercantile Cooperative in Busko-Zdrój.
(United States Holocaust Museum, courtesy of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)
Herr Leming, the Nazi who hired Laura as his bookkeeper at the cooperative.
(Courtesy of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)
Sophie and her mother hiding in plain sight in Busko-Zdrój.
(United States Holocaust Museum)
Sophie and her mother at her first communion in Busko-Zdrój, 1944.
(United States Holocaust Museum, courtesy of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)
The agricultural cooperative where Laura worked.
(Courtesy of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)
Laura, Sophie, and Aunt Putzi in Busko-Zdrój, 1945.
(United States Holocaust Museum)
Sophie’s bear, Refugee, today, still wearing the coat made for him by Aunt Putzi.
(United States Holocaust Museum)
Sophie in the tutu Aunt Putzi had made for her out of tissue paper.
(United States Holocaust Museum)
Zofia Tymejko, the future Dr. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky.
(Courtesy of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)
Laura in London with her aunt Rosa Hoenig.
(Courtesy of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)
Emil Hoenig in front of his candy and tobacco store in London.
(Courtesy of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)
Sophie with her son, Jeffrey, husband, David, and mother, Laura, at Jeffrey’s bar mitzvah.
(Courtesy of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)
Sophie and David with their two sons, Jeffrey and Daniel, at Jeffrey’s wedding to Andrea Weinstock. Seated are Sophie’s uncle, Kazimierz Rozycki, and aunt, Putzi.
(Courtesy of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)
Sophie and her husband, David.
(Courtesy of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)
Flora’s parents.
(Courtesy of Flora Hogman)
Flora and her mother, Stefanie, near Nice, shortly before Stefanie was taken by the Nazis.
(Courtesy of Flora Hogman)
Dr. Odette Rosenstock and Moussa Abadi, who rescued more than 500 Jewish children in the south of France, Flora among them.
(United States Holocaust Museum, courtesy of Julien Engel)
Flora with her adoptive parents, Andrée Karpeles and Adalrik Hogman, with whom she lived until she was twenty-three.
(Courtesy of Flora Hogman)
Flora toasting with shipboard companions en route to New York in 1959.
(Courtesy of Flora Hogman)
Flora in America, age twenty-six.
(Courtesy of Flora Hogman)
Flora at home in New York City today.
(Courtesy of Flora Hogman)
One of Flora’s photographs, using reflections to express what she calls her “double life.”
(Courtesy of Flora Hogman)
Carla Heijmans as a schoolgirl in The Hague
(Courtesy of Carla Lessing)
A watercolor of Carla as a teenager in hiding in Delft, painted by her husband, Ed Lessing.
(Courtesy of Ed Lessing)
Ed Lessing (left) as a Resistance fighter in a forest hideaway near De Lage Vuurse, Holland.
(Courtesy of Ed Lessing)
One of Ed’s earliest drawings, of the Resistance fighters’ hut.
(Courtesy of Ed Lessing)
Corrie and Walter van Geenen, who hid Carla, her mother, and brother in their Delft home. In 1979 Israel granted them status of the Righteous Among the Nations.
(Courtesy of Carla Lessing)
The van Geenens’ house, where Carla and her family hid on the third floor.
Ed’s mother, Engeline, whose resourcefulness helped her entire family survive the war.
(Courtesy of Ed Lessing)
Margrethus Oskam, the small-town Dutch police chief who secretly headed the local Dutch Resistance and was instrumental in keeping the Lessing family safe from the Nazis.
(Courtesy of Ed Lessing)
The Lessing clan. Left to right: Son-in-law, Richard Fusco; daughter, Noa Lessing Fusco; son, Dan Lessing; grandsons Peter Fusco, Aaron Fusco, and Jesse Lessing; daughter-in-law, Stephanie Lessing; granddaughter Kim Lessing.
(Courtesy of Ed and Carla Lessing)
Carla today at the offices of the Hidden Child Foundation in New York City.
(Courtesy of Carla Lessing)
Ed Lessing today.
(Courtesy of Ed Lessing)