Everything about that story seems so suspect. "Her father planned to escape the country and then arrange for his family to make the same trip." So the father left the family that was in so much danger that he somehow thought he would be able to flee and then somehow come back or arrange for them to follow him? What kind of sense does that even make. "About one year later, Liban said, the Germans forced everyone to gather in a large, enclosed plaza, where the guards began to separate people by their age and ability to work. Her mother, a resourceful woman, knew that staying was not an option. “She grabbed my hand tightly and she said, ‘We are walking out of here. Don’t look left or right. Do not talk to anybody. Just follow me,’” Liban said, recounting the moment she and her mother escaped the plaza. Her mother bribed someone with jewelry so they could enter a building and climb out the other side. They walked into the basement, traveled through a coal chute and found themselves outside of the ghetto." Just walked right out. I thought the Germans confiscated all their belongings? She still had valuable enough jewelry to bribe someone with? "A span of two to three months passed, much of it spent inside that closet, Liban said. Then one day the doorbell rang. But it was no stranger, she continued. It was her mother, who survived a run-in with hostile Germans before they carted her off to a concentration camp." Yes, you spent 3 months in a closet and miraculously your mother re-appeared. "Her mother struck a deal with the truck driver who was leaving the concentration camp and heading into town for supplies. The mother wanted to see her child, and the driver agreed to take her, but only if she returned immediately after." Really? Her mother was gone for 3 years where she then returned from the concentration camp. Weren't they death camps? "World War II was over but antisemitism was still alive in Poland, so she and her mother traveled to Germany, where she had surviving family members" Surviving family members, in Germany? I thought they were all purged. .