The author had lived in her comfortable flat in Lodz (in which she was born) for 25 years, when she, her husband and her sister had to leave it to the Germans in 1939. For one year, they stayed undisturbed at Kielce, but then a Ghetto was established. The two sisters - dressmakers by profession - as well as the husband, a joiner, and many others were led to work outside the Ghetto every morning (p.1). After eight months they were sent to Blyzyn (p.2, 4) which had 3,500 internees; ill-treatment which improved, after the Camp-Commander Nell was Bribed. 1½ years later, an S.A. Obersturmführer (p.2, 4) became commander of the Camp and was a very kind man who did everything to help the prisoners. Then, the author (after her husband had died on typhoid) had to leave (p.2) for Auschwitz B. Dr. Mengele in an odd situation (p.3); dreams helped to avoid the worst (p.3-4). Auschwitz first seemed even more adverse, but here she met her sister. Experiments (p.4).

In the year 1944 she worked in a fur factory in Wrechlabi, Czechoslovakia which was a clean and well-kept camp of 400 women who were kindly treated by the Czechs. In order to assist the “Kommandantin” a male Commander took over,at the end of the year. He was extremely kind-hearted; all the internees called him “Father” and later on signed a declaration thanking him for everything he had done for the

After their liberation in May 1945, the women found the kindest help in Czech houses of Jews and non-Jews. The author returned to Lodz, remarried and spent five years in Israel. Since 1955 she has had a happy life in London where she had become established as a dressmaker, a profession which had helped her all the time during the persecution to earn a little extra-money or additional food and so to survive.

The author, her husband and his mother had to appear with their luggage and provisions for three days at the Deutzer Messehalle, in order to be sent to Volksdeutschen-Lager at Lodz. Non-Jews tried to help the about 1,030 Jews gathered in the Hall; the population as a whole seemed to be upset. The luggage was to be left back already there, and there, were some casualties on the march to the railway station under guard of SS (p.1). Arrived at Lodz, they were immediately confined into the Ghetto; its Jewish authorities proved to be all corrupt (p.2-3).

The author, a trained nurse, was infected with Typhus Exanthematicus in the gypsy-camp and was seriously ill for a long time (p.2-3). Her mother-in-law and later her husband died (p.3-5). In January 1944, she got married to a former Czech lawyer; in August they were sent to Auschwitz, from where she went to Berlin-Neukolln with a women-transport. They worked in a Krupp factory and were soon bombed day and night (p.6-7). On 17 April 1945, they were sent via Oranienburg to Ravensbruck, where mutinies were already being started. They were marched off and the author together with four other women, completely exhausted, escaped into a wood, where they slept for 24 hours not noticing that the Russians had gone past them. The author went back to Berlin and from there to Prague, where she hoped to find her husband, but he did never return.