- Sonia Warshawski: Remember: Whenever you are down, look more down, and you'll be on top. - Sonia Warshawski, citing her mother.
- Sonia Warshawski: Birkenau Auschwitz was really like to be in Hell, 'cause you would never believe it what a human can do to another one. One day, that I was working in the fields one day, and here comes a truck with, from the crematoria, the ashes. We were spreading the ashes as a fertilizer. And I can tell you, by spreading those, you know, with a shovel, I could see the little pieces of bones, which even in the crematoria, it couldn't burn completely. And this was very difficult to me. 'Til today, I still live with this.
- Regina Kort: [Narrating old family photo showing 21 people] I want to start with one of the only remaining photos of my family before the war. My mom is highlighted there in the middle. Her sister is the little girl in the back row with pigtails. Everyone else in this photo was murdered. Sonia's sister survived the war in the forest with the partisans and lives in Israel now. My mom's story of survival is incredible, too.