Yvonne Knopf experienced many changes in her early years. She was born into a close-knit Jewish family in Brussels, Belgium in 1939. The Nazis were persecuting the Jews and as living conditions became more trying, her family had to struggle to survive.Yvonne hid with her mother and a few other relatives in a convent. Later, when Yvonne's mother became ill, they moved to the cellar of a drugstore. She eventually lived on her own with a non-Jewish family,...