Steve is a Philadelphia native, and a clinical psychologist by training. His Doctoral Dissertation was on family dynamics of Children of Survivors and their families. His mother, Bella Flora was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1929.
She was eleven years old when Belgium was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940.
As restrictions were progressively imposed upon the small Jewish community of Belgium, her father began to prepare for his family to go into hiding.
On the day that the Gestapo ordered Bella and her sister Jeanne to report to a “summer camp”, Bella’s father sprang into action, and he executed a plan long in the making to hide with a family whom he trusted.
