Elizabeth Marum Lunau was born in Karlsruhe in 1910 to Ludwig Marum and Johanna Benedick. Her father, a Social Democratic member of the Reichstag of Jewish descent, was arrested in March 1933 and assassinated a year later. Her mother and younger sister emigrated to Paris soon after Ludwig Marum's death. In 1936 Elizabeth emigrated to France where, the following year, she married Heinz Lunau in Paris. She was interned in Camp de Gurs from May to July 1940, then lived with a friend in St. Tropez until she was able to emigrate to the United States in September 1941. In the United States, she made her career in the hotel industry as a director of housekeeping. After her retirement in 1976, she published a compilation of the letters her father wrote while he was in a concentration camp. She is currently editing the letters her family wrote in France between 1939 and 1941. This report was written in 1991.