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Benjamin Lew (Eda's grandfather) and members of the family. All these people vanished in the Holocaust, except for Charles Berg (far left, center row).

Eda's Grandmother Axelrod

Eda's mother, Anna Axelrod Lew

Anna and Nathan Lew (Ida's father, on right) with Anna's brother, Leon Axelrod, on the Belgian coast, 1924

Ida & Anna Lew on the Belgian coast,
summer of 1938

Eda and her father, Nathan Lew,
Madison, Wisconsin, 1945

Ida and her brother, Maurice,
on the Belgian coast

The Lew kids--Cécile, Maurice, and Ida -with their favorite nanny, Norma, in better days

Family portrait, first "modern"
apartment in Antwerp, 1938.
Nathan was becoming
successful in his business.

An Antwerp street scene (left to right)
Nathan, Cécile, Anna, Maurice, and
Nathan's nephew, "Kutsky"

With Mom and her friend (clockwise) Anna Lew, Mrs. Calavari, Ida, Cécile, Maurice, Lisette Calavari

Ida's Belgian passport (notice the
"J" by identification number)

Aboard the Marquesa de Comillas,
headed for Cuba with other refugees

Celebrating liberty in Cuba (left to right) Erna Axelrod,
Nathan Lew, Ida (foreground) a fellow refugee, Anna
Lew, Jos Axelrod (Erna's husband and Anna's brother)

Jewish Belgian refugees at play,
Long Island, summer of '42

The Lew family's US sponsor,
Mike Hatowsky

Ida/Eda Lew at twenty years of age...

...and as a grandma