He watched his mother taken away, eventually to die in a concentration camp, and his grandmother's remains roll past in a pile of Jewish bodies on a cart.

[1] He spent most of the war working at a photo laboratory that developed pictures taken by German officers, some of which he smuggled to members of the Polish resistance.

[2] He was eventually captured, and spent the final period of the war as a slave laborer in the quarries of the Gusen concentration camp at Mauthausen.

"[7] A print of Gotfryd's photograph of Simone and Baldwin is now housed at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

[8] Inspired by a 1983 visit to Poland, his first since his emigration, and his mother's exhortation the last day he saw her to "tell the world what the Nazis were doing," Gotfryd began writing brief stories of his memories of his childhood and the Holocaust.