Princ-Hyatt, Betty (1940 -- 2008) | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

The Princ family fled Belgium in May 1940. They had entry passages to Surinam, a Dutch Protectorate. However this plan did not materialize and the family got stranded in Vichy France in the village of Lamastre (southeast France). The French Resistance supplied Nathaniel Prins, the father, with false papers, allowing him to work. However, soon after he was arrested by the Vichy police for living under false identity.

The French neighbors helped collected money for his release. Nathaniel Princ was freed from prison, however on very same day he was arrested again on the ground of being Jewish. He was sent to Drancy transit camp in Paris. From there he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.