A five year old girl's escape over the mountains from Eas Germany into Czechoslovakia, and her mother's determined efforts to keep the family together.
An eight year old boy is expelled from Germany to Poland in the middle of the night in the so-called Polkenation. He escapes to England on the Kindertransport, only to experiece the worst of the Blitz in Coventry.
A young jewish girl who witnesses the Nazi Occupation of Bratislava Czechoslovakia, escapes to Britain on the Kindertransport, her struggle to settle living in Britain and her ongoing search for information about her parents.
A thirteen year old boy sees the rise of the Nazis near Nuremberg and feels the effects of anti-jewish legislation on his education and social life.
A fourteen year old boy survives Auschwitz-Birkenau. He describes the choices he made which enabled him to survive, the cramped and squalid living conditions, the cruelty of the guards and constant battle against hunger and desease.
A six year old girl is violently separated from her parents during Nazi occupied Paris, and how she was kept in hiding throughout the war working in an isolated rural farm.