Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau ia i Warsaw, ki a Jakub Grynsztajn me Pola i mua ko Perl, i whanau a Kijewska, ko ia te mea iti rawa o te tokotoru me te tamahine anake. Whai muri
i te wā i nohoia ai a Pori e Tiamana, ko te kāinga o te whānau i roto i te rohe i nohoia e te Warsaw Ghetto. Whai muri i tana whakangaromanga i te Hurae 1943, i whakawhiti poto ratou ki Majdanek, ka haere ki Auschwitz. I ora ia i te whakakorenga o te puni, te Death March o Hanuere 1945, mai i Auschwitz ki Wodzisław Śląski, mai i reira ka kawea atu ki Ravensbrück, i te Hui-tanguru ki Neustadt-Glewe, mai i reira i whakaorangia ai ia e te Ope Whero i te Mei 1945. I kohurutia tana whaea i Majdanek i te wa i mate ai tana papa i te puni whakangaromanga o Treblinka.