Jacques Ribons describes his life during the Nazi occupation of Poland. During the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto, his family decided to turn themselves in to the Germans. They were sent to a prison and separated. He and his brother survived and went to France with the OSE, and came to the United States in 1947.

Janos Strauss was picked up by the Nazis at age 15, but lied and said he was 17, which saved his life. He was liberated during a transport in 1945.

Judd Nissanov's journey escaping the Nazis as part of the Polish army took him to Persia, Jordan, Palestine and Egypt.

Judy Newman describes her early life in an orphanage in Poland, and went to Israel in the 1950s, where she met her husband.

Magda Nissanov and her family were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary in 1944. She and her sister were later sent to a work camp in Bavaria, and eventually Dachau, where they were liberated in 1945/

Meta Doran's family was deported from Germany to Poland in 1938. She was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1944, where her mother perished.

Perry Oehlbaum describes her time in concentration camps in Germany and her liberation in 1945.