A letter by the author to his father, describing his experiences since December 1941, when he was deported from Kassel to Riga on a transport of 1,000 Jews. He states that some deportees were immediately taken to the annihilation camp Salaspils whilst the others were brought into the ghetto, where shortly before 29,000 Latvian Jews were said to have been killed. About 2,400 elderly people were taken from the ghetto and killed.

Ziering worked in the forced labour detail where it was possible to obtain some additional bread; on account of the starvation diet this was welcome although it was punishable by death. When the SS discovered hidden arms in the ghetto 43 Jews were shot and 108 taken away as hostages. In March 1943 Ziering was taken to a branch camp in the Kaiserwald.

When the Riga camps were dissolved, many inmates were taken to Stutthof. Ziering and other inmates were taken by sea to Libau. Later he was shipped to Hamburg Fuhlbittel and on 11 April 1945 he was marched to Kiel where the SC - prisoners died in great numbers from overwork.

To his surprise Ziering was allocated to a transport of about 1,000 persons, mostly women who were brought to Sweden via Denmark.