A memoir of Grodno, and Reizer’s successful escape to the forests with his wife and young daughter, where they survived with partisans and in family camps. In riveting prose, he describes ghetto life in Grodno and in Minsk, describing the liquidation of the ghettos and his family’s escape after he stole guns and ammunition for the partisans in the forests. Reizer’s story has a powerful, basic honesty to it, concealing nothing.