"A thoughtful, articulate, German-Jewish couple, Herbert and Lotte Strauss, longtime residents of New York, recall their Orthodox upbringing in a small Bavarian city during the 1920s and '30s; how they hid in Berlin until late in the war, then escaped to Switzerland and ultimately to America. They revisit the scenes of their memories and reflect on the meaning of what they and others like them experienced. The film is particularly revealing of the ways in which the Holocaust touched individual lives and the mentality of the German Jews before and during the catastrophe." National Center for Jewish Film