This book encompasses the Holocaust memories of the Teichman, Karpf, and Kühnreich families: Arthur Kühnreich and Genia Karpf Kühnreich, Paula Bettman Karpf and Leo Karpf, Jakob Teichman and Marie LiebermannTeichman. Born in different worlds—Maków Podhalański, Poland; Breslau, Germany; and Złoczów, Poland—their destinies propelled them through ghettos, concentration camps, displaced persons camps, and immigrationon ships with the names of SS Marine Marlin, MS Vulkania, and the USAT General J. H. McRae. In the United States, the six were eventually bound together through the marriage of two of their children, who met in Vineland, New Jersey.

The memoir traces each of their extraordinary journeys through the Holocaust to the freedom and safety of life in the United States.