In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, his extended family was sent to the gas chambers. Ovadia struggled to survive until his liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp in May 1945. While in Auschwitz, Ovadia met Aliza Tzarfati, a young Jewish woman from his hometown, and the two developed a loving relationship despite inhuman conditions. This film depicts their remarkable, touching story of love and survival in Auschwitz, a miraculous meeting after the Holocaust and the home they built together in Israel. This film is part of the "Witnesses and Education" project, a joint production of the International School for Holocaust Studies and the Multimedia Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In this series, survivors recount their life stores - before, during and after the Holocaust. Each title is filmed on location, where the events originally transpired.
![A man dressed in the style characteristic of local Jews, Saloniki, Greece](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/A man dressed in the style characteristic of local Jews%2C Saloniki%2C Greece.jpg?itok=GPxOoJ1d)
![A man dressed in the style characteristic of local Jews, Saloniki, Greece](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/A man dressed in the style characteristic of local Jews%2C Saloniki%2C Greece.jpg?itok=thQ5AIjN)
![The Beit-El synagogue, Saloniki, Greece](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/The Beit-El synagogue%2C Saloniki%2C Greece.jpg?itok=lwMssHvk)
![The Beit-El synagogue, Saloniki, Greece](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/The Beit-El synagogue%2C Saloniki%2C Greece.jpg?itok=xWhZ1npB)
![Saloniki, Greece, Humiliation of Jews during "Black Sabbath", July 11, 1942](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/89CO9_.jpg?itok=mCIT071F)
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![Saloniki, Greece, Humiliation of Jews during "Black Sabbath", July 11, 1942](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/89CO9_.jpg?itok=20l_Yt42)
![Mauthausen, Austria, 1941, Inmates on forced labor](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Mauthausen%2C Austria%2C 1941%2C Inmates on forced labor.jpg?itok=68sG0AiL)
![Mauthausen, Austria, 1941, Inmates on forced labor](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Mauthausen%2C Austria%2C 1941%2C Inmates on forced labor.jpg?itok=5tbMeaGS)
![Mauthausen, Austria, An orchestra escorts prisoners destined for execution, 30.07.1942](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/2_94.jpg?itok=toE_07tx)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives 2AO7
![Mauthausen, Austria, An orchestra escorts prisoners destined for execution, 30.07.1942](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2_94.jpg?itok=qnsWF25Q)
![Austria, A death march to Mauthausen](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/Austria%2C A death march to Mauthausen_0.jpg?itok=WDH-x6rM)
![Austria, A death march to Mauthausen](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Austria%2C A death march to Mauthausen_0.jpg?itok=50528aFj)
![Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia undergoing selection on the ramp at Birkenau.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/jews_hungary5b.jpg?itok=Hf5-VuuW)
![Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia undergoing selection on the ramp at Birkenau.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/jews_hungary5b.jpg?itok=55vxKEvx)
![Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Jews undergoing the selection process on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp".](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/1_129.jpg?itok=PIZ0-vTn)
The people in the background are on their way to Crematorium II, whose building is just visible on the top center of the photo.
Yad Vashem Photo Archive FA-268/25.
![Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Jews undergoing the selection process on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp".](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/1_129.jpg?itok=unH1X9WW)
![Auschwitz, Poland, Inmates lying on bunks in a barrack, after the liberation](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/1586_340.jpg?itok=M7EXzzOL)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives 1586/340
![Auschwitz, Poland, Inmates lying on bunks in a barrack, after the liberation](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/1586_340.jpg?itok=CQjovoyR)
![Auschwitz-Birkenau, women and children deemed "unfit for work" being led unknowingly to Gas Chamber #4](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/4 _0.jpg?itok=dVQwRIm1)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives, ID Number 31588
![Auschwitz-Birkenau, women and children deemed "unfit for work" being led unknowingly to Gas Chamber #4](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/4 _0.jpg?itok=ecEMaaHi)