Irene Safran (nee. Schwimmer) is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. She grew up in Munkachevo, Czechoslovakia, which was later made German territory. In April 1944, she was transported to the Jewish ghetto in her town along with her parents and five siblings. Irene was 21 years old at this time. Just one month later, she was sent to concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, along with her entire family. After a couple of months, her remaining two sisters and herself were transported out of Auschwitz-Birkenau to a munition factory in Torgau. This was because the Germans were evacuating the camp in fear of the Russian advance on their territory. It was in April 1945, that the Americans arrived and finally set Irene free.
After liberation, Irene returned to Czechoslovakia, and was there reunited with her sisters, Hermine and Blanche (pictured below). They were also unexpectedly reunited with their surviving brothers Herman and Benze. By 1948, Hermine and Irene both got married to their husbands, and the entire family moved to America, never to return again. (Safran, 1978)