"Describes the experiences of a Holocaust survivor who escaped death by living a childhood of constant vigil and dodging the threat of a Nazi capture. There are accounts of the family's narrow escapes to (and from) the Lodz, Warsaw, and Czestochowa ghettos and how members of the family survived through luck, deception, and will to live" -- Provided by publisher.

Foreword / Leon W. Wells -- I. End of an Idyll -- Foray into History -- Growing Up in Poznan -- Germans Arrive -- Escape to Lodz, Escape from Lodz -- II. Life in the Warsaw Ghetto -- From One Ghetto to Another -- German Professor -- My Father the Smuggler -- Real and Unreal Worlds -- Vignettes -- Siege and the Escape -- III. Dodging the Predators -- Rescued by Dadek -- Fobbing Off the Landlord -- Mysteries of Mimicry -- Ghetto Revolts -- Forays from the Kitchen into the Jungle -- IV. From the Uprising to Liberation -- Saved from Drowning and Shooting -- Inside Insurgent Warsaw -- I Become a Prisoner of War -- My Life Among the Punks -- Liberation Comes.