Tobi Abelsky recalls two times she and her sister were allowed to stay together after selections at Auschwitz. She and her sister remain grateful for one Nazi who said that because they were sisters, they should be together, and thus saved her sister's life.

Tsilah Zak"haym lived in the Naliboki Forest in Poland with the Bielski Partisans, a Jewish resistance group. She says that in the evenings the camp would sing songs together -- especially when they were hungry and during Jewish holidays.