After retiring in 2016 from a successful career in IT, Jerry Zaks started a quest of researching and documenting the history of his parents' experiences and hardships growing up in Poland in the 1930s. Starting with a 2-hour audio interview he conducted with his parents back in 1980, Jerry spent 6+ years researching his parents' experiences to fill in the details and to tell their story.

"Bearing Witness for My Family: Surviving the Holocaust" is a deeply personal story about the human experience of the Holocaust. Starting in 1937, Jerry traces the lives of his parents before WWII, how they survived multiple concentration camps and death marches, and how they eventually rebuilt their lives in America. Compromised of historical records, actual Nazi documentation, and audio clips from the 1980 interview, Jerry's presentation shows that not only is survival dependent upon you own strength, but also on the actions of good people who were resistors to the violence and murder.