Jack and Sylvia Amar always knew they’d spend their lives together. They planned to marry after the war, when the Nazis were gone from Greece. But in 1943, when word came that they were to be deported from Thessaloniki, they couldn’t wait any longer.
They wed inside the ghetto, believing marriage might keep them from being separated. That hope was shattered as soon as they stepped off the train at Auschwitz: Jack was sent one way, Sylvia another.
Their first glimpse of each other came through the fence. In that fleeting moment, they both broke down in tears.
Somehow, against all odds, they both survived. After the war, they reunited, emigrated to the United States, and built the life the Nazis tried to steal from them. Their story endures as a reminder that even in the darkest places, love can survive.
