Daniel Levey, born on April 24, 1925 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, discusses his Sephardic family; speaking Ladino at home; childhood memories of pre-war life; poverty; anti-Jewish animosity from Muslims; his father, a tailor, served in World War I under the Ottoman Empire; the Nazis attacking in April 1941; forced labor at a military camp in Novus Sarajevo; assignment to a skilled labor brigade because of electrical experience, avoiding registration by the Nazis; ceasing to wear the star; traveling to Mostar to find family; working for Tito’s partisans for a few months in 1942; his arrest and imprisonment at Mamula, an Italian prison, for seven months; his release; joining fellow Jews in Rab; kitchen assignment aiding his survival; liberation in September 1943; working in a hospital; living post-war in Italy; immigrating to Canada in 1948; and immigrating to the United States.