Vladka Meed, born Feigele Peltel, served in the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto by passing as a Christian outside its walls. Immediately following the Second World War, she settled in New York City with her husband. Her memoir, On Both Sides of the Wall, one of the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust, was first published in Yiddish in 1948. She remained extremely active in Holocaust education and memorialization until her death in 2012.

Steven D. Meed is a retired internist and rheumatologist who earned his medical degree from New York University, where he also later served as an assistant professor of medicine. A founder of the Second-Generation group in New York City, he has spoken widely on his parents' experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto.