Lilly was one of the first to be deported to the Gipsy camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eighteen months later she was one of the last to leave the camp. She survived because of her work in the registration office of the camp. She had to document people coming in the camp and the people who were gassed. She never saw her mother, brothers and sister again. Some years later she received notice that her father and her sister were stille alive.

David was the sole survivor of the ship "Struma", which sailed from Constanta, Rumania on December 12, 1941 to Palestine. More than 700 jews were aboard. The ship was detained by the Turks, who refused to let the passengers in. The English refused them visa for Palestine. The ship was towed back to the Black Sea where it was sunk by a Russian submarine. David was hurled overboard and saved by a commercial vessel. He was arrested by the Turks but sent to Syria after a few months imprisonment..

Her father was arrested as a hostage after a resistance attack, the day before her mother's birthday. Riwka went into hidding at a farm in the village of Hellendoorn (Netherlands) under the name of Marietje van der Velde. After the war she was reunited with her mother and sister. She never saw her father again.

Werner was the son of a Jewish salesman and a Hungarian mother. His father was sent to camp Amersfoort (Netherlands) to be deported elsewhere. Werner lived through the war and survived the many dangers he faced.