Life in Luxembourg was normal until 1940 when Julius's business was confiscated and turned over to his non-Jewish manager.  On May 10, 1940 Hitler invaded the Netherlands and France.  On May 11, 1940 Julius left their home with friends and was not heard from for a month.  At that time, the family received a telegram from the French Red Cross that he was fine and two months later he returned home from prison.  At that time, Julius knew it was time to leave Luxembourg and wanted to go to unoccupied France. They left for Brussels and then Paris where Julius purchased ID cards on the black market saying they were all from Alsace.  They took the train wanting to go to Bordeaux and to a farmhouse where the family was to wait for a guide to take them into unoccupied France.  The guide met them and told them that the Germans had captured everyone trying to cross the Pyrenees but Julius insisted on them going anyway.  The guide finally took them and successfully got them to Dax in Southern France.  This took them about 2-3 hours walking in the dark of night.  They went to Pau and then to Montpellier.  In July 1940, the town of Montpellier was invaded and the family and all other Jews in the town were taken to the train station and loaded on trains and taken to Rivesaltes, a transit camp.  Liddy was now 16 years old and her sister 12 years old.  French Red Cross was present at the train station and Liddy's mother pleaded with a woman from the Red Cross to take Liddy and Rosemarie and save them.  The girls were removed from the train and much to her mother's surprise, she and Julius were also removed from the train and taken back to the transit camp.  Julius called a Beret manufacturer that he had done business with and he came to the camp to see him and said he would try to help them.  In the meantime, a cousin of a cousin who the family did not even know, made an affidavit that they were all of French origin and they were released from the transit camp. The conditions in the camp were horrible.  There was lice everywhere, no food was available, no bathroom facilities. The French were in charge of the camp, not Germans, but the French promised to deliver 30,000 Jews per month to the Germans for extermination.  From the camp they returned to Palaves-les-Flot where they were living before they were arrested.  Liddy's mother and sister both got diptheria and they were all quarantined. The President of the French Red Cross and his secretary who got them off the train came to see them and told them to go into hiding using their forged ID cards.  They contacted an attorney given to them by the President of the Red Cross and found them a hiding place in Les Martys and they stayed there for three years.  They rented a small cabin at the foothills of the Pyrenees and no one knew they were Jews as they changed their name from Kahn to Kabron.  Liddy worked for farmers in the area in for food and worked in the Tavern next door to their cabin.  They lived as Catholics until liberation in May 1945 when the Allies arrived.  At this time, they returned to Paris and then back to Luxembourg.  Liddy told her father at this time that she wanted to leave Europe to go to the United States but her father did not want to leave.  He encouraged her to go and Liddy left in May 1945 on the Queen Mary for New York City sponsored by her Uncle.  Shortly after her mother and sister arrived in New York City also.  Liddy lived with her Uncle and his family in New York City and attended New York University.  In November 1951 she was invited by a Rabbi in Bay City, Michigan to come for Thanksgiving and he set Liddy up with Jerome Weinberg.  They hit it off from the first day and by Christmas they were engaged.  They got married and started a life in West Branch, Michigan where they lived a Jewish life.  Liddy spoke at local schools about her experience during the war but did not really discuss it with her children.  

Liddy is very thankful to the United States for taking them in.