Essays by Tom Figueras give details about his brother, Ladizlav or "Laci," who was a prodigy violin player in Germany during the Holocaust, and eventually ended up in a sub-camp of Buchenwald and then in Bergen-Belsen where he perished. Figueras survived the Holocaust, but his parents did not. He came to the United States in 1960 and became a marketing manager for a telecommunications company.

Essays by Esther Finder describe her parents surviving the Holocaust, and her own visit to the town where they grew up in Poland.

Essay about Eveylen Goldstein and her family as Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China.

Essays describe the early life of Margot Goodman, whose father was killed in the Holocaust. She surivived in hiding and came to the United States in 1941, and was reunited with her mother.

Alexander Kuechel describes the events leading up to Kristallnacht in 1938, being the sole survivor of his family, enduring seven concentration camps.

Group of essays by Lydia Lebovic describe how she and her family were forced into a ghetto and then sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She describes the time spent in the camps and liberation in 1945.

This essay describes how Henry Schuster was able to leave Germany through the kindertransport to France in 1939, and arrived in the United States in 1941.