1938 Sent to Paris from Prague as Antisemitism rose

Mother followed one year later

1940 Mother had been sent to camp De Gurs

Margit escaped the German invasion of Paris by bicycle

Miraculously, they found each other and they fled German occupation via Marseille, Spain, and Portugal

Migration to the United States in 1941

Margit Meissner died in 2019 in Bethesda, Maryland.

Lest We Forget Washington, D.C. 01-21-2018