A father. A devastating choice. A testimony that still challenges readers more than eighty years later.

What happens when the desperate choices made to save your family become the source of a lifetime of guilt? Confession is one of the most powerful and controversial personal accounts to emerge from the Holocaust. Written while in hiding, Calek Perechodnik’s extraordinary memoir offers a brutally honest reflection on life in the Otwock Ghetto, the impossible moral dilemmas faced under Nazi rule, and the devastating consequences of one decision that haunted him until his death. Preserved in the Yad Vashem Archives and presented here in a faithful new English edition edited by Professor David Engel, Confession is an unforgettable testimony of love, loss, responsibility, and survival that challenges readers long after they turn the final page.