A Story of Survival: All We Had Was Hope narrated by Survivor, MAYER BITTERMAN. Mayer, his parents and brother lived in Krakow, Poland. From the Krakow ghetto to Oskar Schindler’s factory in Plaszow to Aushwitz and then transported again, Mayer worked at the Mauthausen quarry on the “Stairs of Death.” After the War, Mayer moved to a DP Camp and witnessed the testimony and sentencing of 60 defendants accused of war crimes associated with Mauthausen.
