Kurt Messerschmidt remembers the role of bystanders and explains the importance of standing up to injustice.

Edward Adler remembers being imprisoned for going on a date with a non-Jewish girl, which violated the Nuremberg Laws, a set of discriminatory, anti-Jewish measures enforced by the Nazi regime in 1935. 

After surviving the Holocaust, Abraham Amaterstein became an arts and culture journalist at a newspaper in Chisinau, Moldova. He wrote a review of a concert by the famed composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and Shostakovich was so pleased with the review that he invited Amaterstein to lunch.