Memoirs of a Jew who was born in 1922 in Zhetel (in Polish, Zdzięcioł). Pp. 73-137 deal with the Holocaust period, and Shelub's experiences as a partisan in the forests of Belarus.

Memoirs of a Jew who was born in Warsaw ca. 1920. In 1939 he went to study in Lvov. Describes the Nazi occupation in 1941, the pogrom by Germans and Ukrainians which followed, the anti-Jewish laws, and life in the ghetto, where Stankiewicz became a forger of papers. In spring 1943 he escaped from the ghetto and fled to Ukraine, posing as a German soldier; however, he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Buchenwald. A friend helped him obtain classification as a Pole, thereby improving his conditions in the camp. He was liberated in April 1945 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1949.