Mordechai Beck­er, an orphan of the Holo­caust and a proud Israeli, was born and grew up dur­ing the most momen­tous peri­od of mod­ern Jew­ish his­to­ry, the near destruc­tion of the Jew­ish peo­ple and the rebirth of the State of Israel.

In a par­al­lel true sto­ry, he vivid­ly recalls the near extinc­tion of his own fam­i­ly and the even­tu­al tri­umph of his human will to sur­vive and thrive.