When the Germans liquidate the ghetto of Jaslo, his hometown in Poland, Stanley is left not knowing where to turn. He finds himself in multiple Nazi camps, including Plaszow and Buchenwald, on a surprising and terror-filled path to liberation and survival.
Hedy Bohm is a Jewish teenager from Oradea, Romania, who survives Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Fallersleben concentration camp, where she is a forced laborer at the Volkswagen factory. After liberation, Hedy, now an orphan, escapes from Communist Hungary to Canada, where she starts a family and becomes involved in Holocaust education.
