Esther Loeb and Regina Stern honor their stepfather Judka Joe Heitler, who married their mother Chana Kirszenberg Heitler after he met her at a DP camp in Europe. Judka had seen his first wife and son shot by the Nazis; overnight, his hair became white. He was imprisoned in a concentration camp, probably Buchenwald. Heitler survived the war and moved to Nashville in 1949, where he was active at the Jewish Community Center. He died in Nashville in 1963.
The Nashville Holocaust Memorial