This film tells the story of sisters Fanny Rozelaar and Betty Mayer, nee Ichenhauser. The two daughters were born to Arthur (Aharon Chaim) and Ada Victoria, nee Jacobson in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1919 and 1923 respectively. After the Nazi rise to power they moved, together with their families, to Amsterdam. The film follows the different paths of Fanny and Betty: the elder daughter marrying and going into hiding with her husband, as well as entrusting her infant son to another young mother; and the younger daughter choosing to nurse her ailing mother and being sent, with Ada, to Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen. The sisters and their mother reunited and emigrated to Israel after the war, carving out new lives for themselves and their families. While this film is unique in that it portrays the viewpoints of two sisters with two different experiences, both narratives characterize the story of Dutch Jewry and, to a degree, that of the Jews of Central Europe during and after the Holocaust.
![Westerbork, Holland, 1943, Dutch Jews embarking on a deportation train to Auschwitz](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/20AO9_.jpg?itok=wztu1VYN)
![Westerbork, Holland, 1943, Dutch Jews embarking on a deportation train to Auschwitz](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/20AO9_.jpg?itok=mwFnyYf2)
![Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, The Jewish Community's School for Metal Works, Prewar](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Frankfurt Am Main%2C Germany%2C The Jewish Community%27s School for Metal Works%2C Prewar.jpg?itok=7ySpoMGG)
![Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, The Jewish Community's School for Metal Works, Prewar](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Frankfurt Am Main%2C Germany%2C The Jewish Community%27s School for Metal Works%2C Prewar.jpg?itok=avjdpxqN)
![Frankfurt, Germany, 1931, Jewish Schoolgirls](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Frankfurt%2C Germany%2C 1931%2C Jewish Schoolgirls.jpg?itok=Rs_PGCFh)
![Frankfurt, Germany, 1931, Jewish Schoolgirls](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Frankfurt%2C Germany%2C 1931%2C Jewish Schoolgirls.jpg?itok=kjB6AHRL)
![Frankfurt Am Main, 1932, A Mass Gathering of the NSDAP](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Frankfurt Am Main%2C 1932%2C A Mass Gathering of the NSDAP.jpg?itok=V2xT17SG)
![Frankfurt Am Main, 1932, A Mass Gathering of the NSDAP](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Frankfurt Am Main%2C 1932%2C A Mass Gathering of the NSDAP.jpg?itok=WIedxP0T)
![Frankfurt, Germany, a Synagogue on Fire After Kristallnacht](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Frankfurt%2C Germany%2C A Synagogue on Fire After Kristallnacht.jpg?itok=vr326kaD)
![Frankfurt, Germany, a Synagogue on Fire After Kristallnacht](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Frankfurt%2C Germany%2C A Synagogue on Fire After Kristallnacht.jpg?itok=N4ODF9L7)
![Frankfurt, Germany, Burning of the Boemestrasse Synagogue on Kristallnacht, 10/11/1938](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Frankfurt%2C Germany%2C Burning of the Boemestrasse Synagogue on Kristallnacht.jpg?itok=rfcEQzyD)
![Frankfurt, Germany, Burning of the Boemestrasse Synagogue on Kristallnacht, 10/11/1938](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Frankfurt%2C Germany%2C Burning of the Boemestrasse Synagogue on Kristallnacht.jpg?itok=13zp3rKn)
![Frankfurt, Germany, the interior of a synagogue, prewar](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Frankfurt%2C Germany%2C The interior of a synagogue%2C Prewar.jpg?itok=m80v7dEV)
![Frankfurt, Germany, the interior of a synagogue, prewar](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Frankfurt%2C Germany%2C The interior of a synagogue%2C Prewar.jpg?itok=B2WOPkiM)
![Westerbork, Holland, loading Jews onto a deportation train](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Westerbork%2C Holland%2C Loading Jews Onto a Deportation Train.jpg?itok=hqyVyCpO)
![Westerbork, Holland, loading Jews onto a deportation train](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Westerbork%2C Holland%2C Loading Jews Onto a Deportation Train.jpg?itok=5qKAVSnO)
![Westerbork, Holland, Jewish women wearing the Jewish badge in the camp](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Westerbork%2C Holland%2C Jewish women wearing the Jewish badge in the camp.jpg?itok=hzL7poQz)
![Westerbork, Holland, Jewish women wearing the Jewish badge in the camp](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Westerbork%2C Holland%2C Jewish women wearing the Jewish badge in the camp.jpg?itok=rYOcJiqP)
![A Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony in the Westerbork transit camp, Netherlands, December 1943](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9-1922_14.jpg?itok=NoOc6J27)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives 1922/14
![A Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony in the Westerbork transit camp, Netherlands, December 1943](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9-1922_14.jpg?itok=L4pCG2OU)
![Westerbork, Holland, the camp fences and barracks](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Westerbork%2C Holland%2C The camp fences and barracks.jpg?itok=lqDByP4I)
![Westerbork, Holland, the camp fences and barracks](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Westerbork%2C Holland%2C The camp fences and barracks.jpg?itok=KALh2Lx7)
![A survivor sitting alone after his liberation at Bergen-Belsen, April 1945](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/180_46.jpg?itok=JxLOc1Kq)
Yad Vashem Photo Archive, FA180/46
![A survivor sitting alone after his liberation at Bergen-Belsen, April 1945](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/180_46.jpg?itok=PEfgBkbx)
![Female survivors holding bread, Bergen-Belsen, Germany](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/181_76.jpg?itok=cOdeT_sR)
![Female survivors holding bread, Bergen-Belsen, Germany](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/181_76.jpg?itok=F6yNsyd5)
![Bergen-Belsen, Germany, Photograph of a crematorium](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Bergen-Belsen%2C Germany%2C Photograph of a crematorium.jpg?itok=u0Q-SY6Q)
![Bergen-Belsen, Germany, Photograph of a crematorium](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Bergen-Belsen%2C Germany%2C Photograph of a crematorium.jpg?itok=6fC4OfH4)
![Bergen Belsen, Germany, Members of the "Kazet" Theater at the DP Camp, 1945](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Bergen Belsen.jpg?itok=lSniY0uV)
![Bergen Belsen, Germany, Members of the "Kazet" Theater at the DP Camp, 1945](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Bergen Belsen.jpg?itok=Di8IMBKa)