Judith and Abram Popinski were lovers who survived the Holocaust. These are their true stories.

They met in the Lodz ghetto in 1941. When the ghetto was emptied in 1944, they each began a long journey to Auschwitz and through a series of other extermination and labour camps. Finally they were rescued in April 1945 and reunited in Sweden that summer. There they built a new life together.

These are their own stories. That we survived was pure luck, both say. It took many miracles to stay alive, and the miracles were far too few in the ghetto and the extermination camps, Abram concluded. Judith writes that she was born twice, the first time in Lodz in 1923 and the second time in 1945 when the Swedish Red Cross buses picked her up in Ravensbrück.

In the early 1990s, they began to reach out to schools as Eyewitnesses of the Holocaust and over the years met thousands of students and their teachers and told them about their experiences. Both used to end their story with the words: "After all, we had a good life together in Sweden".

Their daughter Henrietta did not know what they had been through until she was an adult. In her afterword, Henrietta Stein reflects on what it has meant to grow up and live with the silence surrounding her parents' experiences.