Deborah’s Generations Presentation
A Story of Love and Resilience
She was born in Bruchsal, Germany. He was born in Vienna, Austria. As hidden children, their paths crossed briefly in a French orphanage. This is just a part of their story, separately and together: surviving the Holocaust, fighting Nazis in the French Resistance, and making a new life in America. This is the true story of Kurt and Edith Leuchter, as told by their daughter Deborah Stueber.
About Deborah
Debbie Leuchter Stueber was born and raised on Long Island and majored in Elementary Education at the State University of Oneonta, NY. She moved to Pittsburgh in 1991 and now calls it her hometown. Shortly after moving to Pittsburgh, she met the director of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh at that time and has been a volunteer for the past 30 years. In 2021, she was chosen as their Volunteer of the Year.
Debbie is married and has a sister and three grown sons and a granddaughter. Her parents are 96 and 97. Sharing her parents’ Holocaust experience with schools, universities, and various organizations for the last several years has been her passion.
She feels strongly that it’s the responsibility of her generation and generations to come to carry on the survivors’ legacy.
Keep up with Debbie on Instagram: @bruchsal_meets_vienna
