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Helga, a native of Berlin, tells of her experiences as a German Jewish child, teenager and young adult under the Nazi regime. She describes how discriminatory laws affected an individual family, how she watched her parents being taken away and how she survived the War hidden in Berlin.

Murray was picked up off the streets of Lodz, Poland, at the age of nine. He survived a total of seven concentration camps and countless horrors. The last camp was Buchenwald from which he was liberated.

Rachel, a native of Poland, describes how, as a teenager, she evaded the roundup of Jews in her small hometown. She survived in the forests with her mother, who was eventually killed by German soldiers. Totally alone, she joined bands of partisans. Later, before the end of the War, she realized the dream of finding her brother alive.