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This is the story of Suzanna (Zuzi) Braun, who grew up in Kosice, Slovakia prior to World War II. Born in 1937, the film begins with 80-year-old Zuzi returning to Kosice to visit the swimming pool where she swam everyday with her sister Agi and her mother. Zuzi reminisces throughout the film on her life story—walks with her father Dr. Arthur Weisz as a child, her family's standing in the community, how Hitler's war came to Kosice, the concentration camp where her family was sent, the loss of her mother and father, how she and Agi survived the camp and their long journey to find medical help for Agi during the Russian invasion of Slovakia, how her sister lost both of her legs to amputation, and finally the work the two sisters did following the war by telling their story around the world. At the end of the movie, each member of Zuzi's family is remembered through a newspaper-like memorial. Classical music is played throughout the film, and the story is told in Hebrew and Slovakian with English subtitles. This very moving film, with archival footage, is one of the most powerful personal stories of World War II and the Jewish Holocaust that I have ever viewed. I strongly recommend it.