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Birthdays are special! They come just once a year-bringing cake and presents, balloons and confetti, laughter and cheer. Have you ever wondered where all this birthday magic began?

German brothers Heinz and Klaus want to give their parents something special for their anniversary. They find an incredible six-day guided travel tour of New York City and surprise their mom and dad with this once in a lifetime gift, never knowing tragedy is about to strike. While on vacation, Heinz and Klaus's parents die in a terrible explosion. With their deaths comes new information about their family history. How will the boys reconcile what they learn with how they saw their parents? The brothers consider their ancestry and long for the perceived idealism of Nazi Germany, where power and destruction were ways of life and secrets were preserved and passed to the next generation. They have the knowledge to do the unimaginable: destroy a great American city and kill millions of people. This is a now a battle of morality as a need for vengeance takes control of once sensible men, destroyed by grief.

Up to 1939, when Poland came under German domination, it was the center of the European Jewish world, filled with a large Jewish population that had lived on Polish soil for over nine centuries, and developed a vibrant self-sustaining social and religious community culture. During the German occupation of World War II, close to 3 million Polish Jews were exterminated. Poland was where the Nazis established most of their ghettos and all death camps. It was where the railroad tracks converged, bringing hundreds of thousand Jews from the remotest corners of Europe to feed the Nazi death machine. Thousands of Poles risked their lives to save Jews by mostly sheltering them, while most others were passive onlookers, fearful for their lives to get involved, and too many others collaborated with the hated enemy in eliminating Jews. Mordecai Paldiel, a historian of the Holocaust, examines the important role Jews played in Poland in the years before Germans occupied the country. He also examines the antisemitism that existed in Poland before the Nazis arrived. Just as important, he highlights the various responses of Poles as witnesses of the German extermination of Jews, including the thousands who, in spite of the dangers to themselves, did their utmost to save Jews from the German-orchestrated Holocaust.