Irene Frankel Allon

Irene Allon was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex in World War II. She was deceased before the contemporary action in any of the books, but her powerful testimony helped motivate her son at a difficult time.

Trivia

 * Originally from Berlin, Germany
 * Survived Auschwitz
 * Gifted painter - a talent which her son inherited
 * She died because of cancer.
 * She had hoped to have six children - one for each million of jews that had been killed during the holocaust.
 * She was prone to melancholia and violent mood swings
 * On her left arm, she always wore a bandage that concealed her ID-number (29395) that was tattooed onto her skin in Auschwitz. She referred to it as her mark of Jewish weakness and emblem of Jewish shame.
 * Both painting and motherhood were and ordeal for her