With the Nazi occupation of Kovno (Lithuania), her life changed forever. Zlata Santocki Sidrer was Jewish, but she survived the horrors of the Holocaust. She witnessed untold deprivations, massacres, imprisonment, hunger, and slave labor, before being transported to a Concentration Camp. Her story of the death march is a testament to her fighting spirit and the limits of human endurance. Lovingly compiled from recorded interviews and researched by her eldest daughter, Ettie, this is an account of a remarkably resilient woman who raised herself out of the ashes after unimaginable hardship and sorrow. Ettie’s quest to learn more about her ancestry led her to visit Lithuania and Poland-in her family's footsteps. The author reflects on the impact of her family's experiences and how that manifested itself in transgenerational trauma. In these memoirs she honors her family's suffering and survival.