 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Salomon Smolianoff akaberekerwa kumhuri yechiJudha muKremenchuk, Ukraine. Akadzidza kupenda muUmambo hweRussia, asi aifanira kusiya nyika muna 1922 nemhaka yokuti vabereki vake vakanga vari kurutivi rwakashata rweSoviet Revolution. Akafamba muEurope yose, akaroorwa muItaly, uye pakupedzisira akaedza kutanga upenyu hutsva muGermany, kwaakasangana nomunhu aiita zvokunyepedzera ndokusarudza kuva mumwe wacho. Akanga achitsvakwa nemapurisa akawanda eEurope Hondo Yenyika II isati yatanga. Muna 1939 Bernhard Krüger, aizova mutungamiriri weSS Sturmbannführer weOperation Bernhard, akamuisa mujeri. Akatumirwa kumusasa wevasungwa weMauthausen, uye akazviita munhu anobetsera kuvarindi veSS somunyori wemifananidzo uye muimbi. Akasarudzwa nokuda kweOperation Bernhard, akaendeswa kumusasa wevasungwa weSachsenhausen muna 1944, uye pakupedzisira kuEbensee nzvimbo yeMauthausen musasa wemasasa, kwaakasunungurwa neUnited States Army musi waMay 6, 1945. Zvose zvakaratidzwa nomunyengeri mukuru Smolianoff zvakarasika pashure pokusunungurwa kwake. Nokukurumidza akanga ava kunzi ari kutsvakwa munyika yose somunhu aiita zvokunyepedzera, asi anofungidzirwawo kuti akanga agadzira magwaro okubuda munyika nokuda kwavaJudha vakanga vachiedza kuenda kuPalestine. 