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Loncia Rein was born on October 4, 1934, in Czortkow, Poland (now Chortkiv, Ukraine), to Yidl Yehuda and Dvoire Aschkenase Rein. Loncia, called Lola, was an only child. Both sides of her family were from Czortkow. Her father Yidl was born in 1889, the only child of Yakov and Reisil Nadler Rein. Yakov and Reisil owned a bakery. Lola’s mother Dvoire was born in 1900 to Nachman and Ethel Salzinger Aschkenase. ...

Abraham (Bumek) Gruber was born to Osjasz and Sara Gruber, near or in Drohobycz, Poland (Drohobych, Ukraine). He had three siblings: Ryfka, born 1916, Josef, and Laura, born November 6, 1904. Laura married Jakub Drimmer in 1903 and had two children, Marcel, born May 1, 1904, and Irena (Mila) born July 4, 1936. Bumek was a butcher by trade. During the early 1930s he served in the Polish Army. Bumek ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...