David Faber, born 1926, is a Polish Jew who survived nine concentration camps from 1939 to 1945 in Nazi Germany and occupied Poland. He witnessed the murders of his parents, his brother Romek, five of his six sisters, and some of his extended family. At age 14, he was a fighter with the Russian partisans. When he was liberated from Bergen-Belsen in 1945, he was 18 years old and weighed 72 pounds. Faber says “I was a living skeleton and could not resist anymore." Even though he was liberated he gave up on living. Later, he was found on the side of a road and taken to a hospital, where he was nourished back to life.

His book, "Because of Romek," is a memoir of his ordeal in the camps. He wrote the book in memory of his entire family but especially of his older brother Romek. Faber's book is a documentation of the inhumanities of the 20th century and became required reading in some schools. Faber is an award-winning educator and lecturer on the Holocaust. He currently resides in San Diego, California with his wife Lina, who is also a Holocaust survivor.

Leon was born in 1929, in Narewka, a town 150 miles northeast of Warsaw, Poland. The family's feelings of security collapsed when in 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the brutality of the Nazis accelerated with murder, violence and terror - the family was herded into Kracow's Jewish ghetto. In 1941 Hershel, the oldest, fled Kracow but was killed by the Nazis in a massacre in Narewka. By then, his father and a brother were working for Oscar Schindler at his enameled-goods factory, close to the Jewish ghetto.

Leon was 13 years old when his father brought him into Oscar Schindler’s factory. He was the youngest survivor of Schindler's List. Leon was just a skinny kid and so little that he couldn't reach the handles on the machine. He used to stand on an upside-down box. Schindler developed a fondness for him, nicknaming him little Leyson and showing him many kindnesses. Leyson later recalled: “Occasionally, when he was by himself, he would come and talk to me. He ordered that I get extra rations of food...” His two eldest brothers did not survive the war, but he, his parents and brother and sister were saved by Schindler.

Magda was born and raised in the city of Cluj, Romania. She and her family were deported to the German concentration camps in 1944 when the Nazi's occupied her native city. She is a survivor of three death camps: Auschwitz, Bremen, and Bergen Belsen. Most of her family members were killed by the Nazis.

Magda is a poet, lecturer and composer. She is also the author of five books: “The Waltz of the Shadows” - an autobiography in poetry form, “Eyewitness to Holocaust” - an autobiographical essay consisting of prose and poetry, “Will You Still Love Me?” - a collection of love poems dedicated to her husband, “Songs of Life” - a poetry book, and “Survival” - which recounts her ordeal in the concentration camps.

Mel is a Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross Rosen, and Buchenwald concentration camps. His father, mother, two sisters and a brother all died during the Holocaust, simply because they were Jewish. Mr. Melmelstein’s autobiography, "By Bread Alone," describes the horrors of life in the concentration camps. The title of the book is taken from the importance that bread symbolized in his life.

Bread was the lifeline. It was filling and nourishing, and it also held a religious significance - bread was seen as the manna from heaven which was sent from God. In the camps, bread and shoes were key elements needed in order to survive. Bread was traded, savored, and treasured. In a 1991 TV movie "Never Forget," Leonard Nimoy portrayed Mel's ordeal in the camps. Mr. Mermelstein is the founder of the Auschwitz Study Foundation - Huntington Beach.

Mickey and his family were in their home in Hungary about to celebrate the Passover, when a loud banging on their door by a Nazi soldier signaled the beginning of a new slavery much worse than the one 3,400 years earlier. It was the last time that Mickey would ever see most of his family members.

After witnessing unspeakable horrors and surviving incarcerations in Auschwitz, Hirshberg, and Buchenwald, Mickey was rescued by the Allies in 1945 and was one of the passengers on the famous ship “Exodus” Mickey not only survived the concentration camps and the harrowing trip aboard the Exodus, he later immigrated to Israel where he became an officer in the Israeli Defense Force and fought in the War for Independence in 1948.