Berek Lewkowicz was seventeen years old when from a window of the family apartment in Bedzin, Poland, he witnessed the Nazis burning buildings and murdering Jews. The only son in a family of five, Berek would spend the next six years fighting to survive the hunger, beatings and gruelling work in forced labour camps and eventually ‘brutal and dehumanising imprisonment’ in the Small Fortress of Terezin, the Nazis’ prison across the river from the well-documented ghetto/camp.