Shirley is a Holocaust survivor. She was born in Kyvjazd, Czechoslovakia.

Bio taken from Wikipedia: "Gerda Weissmann Klein (born Gerda Weissmann, May 8, 1924, Bielsko, Poland) is a Polish-born American writer and human rights activist. Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust, All but My Life (1957), was adapted for the 1995 short film, One Survivor Remembers, which received an Academy Award and an Emmy Award, and was selected for the National Film Registry. She married Kurt Klein (1920–2002) in 1946.

Joe Frank is a Holocaust survivor. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1937.