March 22, 2022 | Noon PST
Edith was born in Bruchsal, Germany. Kurt was born in Vienna, Austria. They were both hidden children in France and saved by an organization called OSE, which translates to Children’s Aid Society, a Jewish underground organization that operated clandestinely during the war saving over 5,000 Jewish children. As hidden children, their paths crossed briefly in a French orphanage. This is just a part of their story, separately and together: surviving the Holocaust, fighting Nazis in the French Resistance, and making a new life in America. This is the true story of Kurt and Edith Leuchter, as told by their daughter Deborah Stueber.
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Debbie Leuchter Stueber was born and raised on Long Island and majored in elementary education at the State University of Oneonta, NY. She moved to Pittsburgh in 1991 and now calls it her hometown. Debbie is a senior customer service representative for an electronics manufacturer. Shortly after moving to Pittsburgh, she met the director of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and has been a volunteer for the past 20 plus years. This past year, she was chosen as their Volunteer of the Year.
Debbie is married and has three grown sons. Her parents are 93 and 94 and live in Boynton Beach, Florida. Telling her parents’ Holocaust experience to schools, universities, and various organizations for the last several years has been her passion. She feels strongly that it’s the responsibility of her generation and generations to come to carry on the survivors’ legacy.