The widow Marguerite Alexander-Dreyfus, born in Biel/Bienne in Switzerland, lived at Emmaplein 3 with her children Alfred (Freddy), Paul, Willy and Suze. Suze was a pupil of the Joods Lyceum, the Jewish secondary school. Marguerite and Suze went into hiding in The Hague. They were betrayed and arrested on 23 February 1944. They were murdered in Auschwitz on 6 March 1944. The three sons survived the war. Paul Alexander described the search for the fate of his mother and sister in the book 'De geschiedenis van mijn nieuwsgierigheid' (2010).