Jerry Zaks gives a moving presentation on his parents' experiences and hardships growing up in Poland in the 1930’s. Jerry’s presentation is comprised of historical records, actual Nazi documentation and audio clips from an interview he conducted with his parents back in 1980. The presentation is not a history lesson, but instead is a deeply personal story about the human experience of the Holocaust. It starts in 1937, when his parents were 17 and 18 years old and traces their lives from before WWII, how they survived multiple concentration camps and death marches, and how they eventually rebuilt their lives in America.