Selma Metzger and her daughter survive concentration camps in Nazi Germany during WWII. Her daughter is reunited with her in a younger women's camp and tells Selma to lie about her age to survive the death camps. Selma then cares for her daughter as they work in labor concentration camps in Eastern Europe until they are liberated by the Russian Army.

Martin A. Winkler PhD is a consultant in Biotechnology who teaches courses in Microbiology and in Immunology on-line through the University of Phoenix. He has worked as a research biohemist in both the diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries and has authored over 22 peer-reviewed scientific publications and holds four patents