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Dor, who was born in 1940 in Bukachivtsi, Ukraine, relates the story of her family, the Kastens, based on interviews with her mother. After the German occupation of 1941, Dor was sent with her parents, Yosef and Liba-Lena, and her older brother Shmuel to the ghetto of Rohatyn. Her parents also had a baby boy, who was killed soon after they entered the ghetto. After a mass murder in March 1942, the family escaped from the ghetto and returned to their hometown. They hid in a nearby forest with some other Jewish families, and Dor's mother gave birth to another daughter shortly before the liberation in 1944. After the liberation two more children were born, and the family emigrated to Israel in 1948. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)