The autobiography of a German Jew, from Leipzig, now a rabbi, describing Jewish life and the antisemitism which began in the early 1930s, even before the Nazi takeover. Describing Nazi persecution of Jews, focuses on the expulsion of the Polish Jews in October 1938 and the rescue of some by the Polish consul in Leipzig. Gives details on the events of the "Kristallnacht" pogrom and the struggle of his family to emigrate in 1939. Out of 18,000 Jews in Leipzig in 1930, only 6,000 remained there in 1939; they were deported in various transports between 1942-45. Followed by an essay on Holocaust theology (pp. 148-159).