The author tells of the lives and deaths of fellow Jews in Poland under German occupation. The book is both a historical study and a first-hand account, the author himself having witnessed many of the events he described. It covers some of the most serious issues of the time: theories of race and the causes of war; Allied attitudes and relations between free and captive Jews; and the historical and religious meaning of what has become inaptly known as the holocaust, are discussed in conversational style.
