Alice and Emile Pothron were born in France and met as naturalized American adults in New York. They fell in love and married in 1928. On a return trip to France in 1938, with the Second World War looming, they were caught up in the German invasion of France in 1940. Separated by cruel events, each suffered terribly. Then Alice bravely attempted to escape the Nazis with her 18 month-old daughter.
