Five eyewitnesses in hell. The Auschwitz stories.

Edward Serotta

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Tina Gray

She grew up in a well-to-do family in Budapest, married in 1928 and doted on her only child, Erwin, while running three hat shops with her husband. Then the entire family descended into hell.

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Jan Goodman

Katarina Vidor grew up comfortably middle class in Bratislava. She worked in an accounting office, spoke four languages. She loved playing tennis and water skied with friends on the Adriatic. She had recently married and her parents lived nearby. Then war came.

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Elliot Levey

In March 1939, Nazi Germany occupied the Czech regions of Bohemia and Moravia. Pavel’s family was called for a transport to Terezin in 1944. Two years later, they were told they would be sent to “the east.” That meant Auschwitz.

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Steve Furst

Jozef trained as a barber and as someone who could repair fountain pens. Those skills first saved his life and brought him into direct contact with Nazi officers in Auschwitz—and led him to testify against them in nearly a dozen postwar trials.

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Henry Goodman

When Nazi Germany occupied Austria, over 110,000 Jews managed to flee. The Luster family, Moses and Golda, and their 14 year old son Leo, could not find a way out. Leo would endure nearly seven years of hell—in Theresienstadt, in Auschwitz, and in work camps in Germany.

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