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Barbara and Howard Steinmetz fell in love with Boulder when they first visited in 1963, on their way to a camping trip in Rocky Mountain National Park with their three daughters. Although Howard wanted to move immediately, Barbara wanted to be close to her parents in Michigan. The family continued to vacation in Colorado, and Barbara and Howard finally made Boulder their home in 2005.

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A beachfront community in New York City’s borough of Queens, where Barbara's father Alexander Bandler accepted a job offer at a restaurant in 1946. The Bandlers rented a one-room apartment in Averne and Margit helped make ends meet by working as a house cleaner. That year, Barbara’s cousin Panni came to live with the Bandler family in Queens. Panni, 17, was one of few family members who survived the Holocaust.

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After graduating from high school in 1954, Barbara attends the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she studies speech pathology. Her fiancé Howard Steinmetz is already a student there. Barbara’s father insisted that Barbara attend college before getting married; Barbara and Howard wed with Alexander’s blessing in 1956.

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The second-largest city on the French Riviera, Nice became a haven for many Jews fleeing the Nazis and the outbreak of the war in 1939. After the Nazi invasion and the establishment of the Vichy Regime in unoccupied France in July 1940, the situation for Jewish refugees became tenuous as antisemitic aggression spread. Barbara Bandler’s family fled to Nice in 1939, after their expulsion from Italy and a brief visit in their home country of Hungary. From here, they hoped to find passage out of Europe. They family rented an apartment at 16 Avenue Georges Clemenceau; Margit worked in a hospital kitchen and Alexander was hired by a restaurant, while Barbara and her sister Ann attended school. The Bandlers stayed in Nice for just over a year, until the beginning of 1941, when they moved on to Madrid, Spain.