Arnold Friedman, Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, describes the night of November 9-10, 1938, when throughout Germany and Austria synagogues, Jewish stores and were attacked, looted and even destroyed.

 Michael Steinlauf recounts his father's experience of the Warsaw Ghetto and the years following.

 Lili Bermant recalls her family's Initial experience of World War Two in Belgium January of 1941 after the Germans invaded in May of 1940.

 Lili Bermant remembers listening to Hitler's speeches on the radio when she was a child living in Belgium.

 Lili Bermant talks about joining a zionist youth group while she was living in Cuba and becoming disillusioned while part of it.

 Micha Eisenstorg remembers talking with Holocaust survivors at the beach as a youth.

 Micha Eisenstorg tells how his parents refused to wear the yellow star during World War Two, and how his father took risks against the curfew.

 Micha Eisenstorg describes the deportation of 3/4 of Belgian Jews during WWII. Many hid, including his parents and brothers. He describes the work barracks that the Nazis set up in Mechelen, where some of his relatives were.

 Ingrid recalls corresponding with her parents when they were in a small Polish ghetto, while she had been sent to Sweden to live with a foster family to save her from the concentration camps that her parents would soon be sent to.

 Christa Whitney talks about her very first Jewish Studies class at Smith College with Justin Cammy.