Described by the book's Polish publisher as a literary take on theauthor's experience in the Lodz ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps.Arnold Mostowicz, a Polish Jew was a doctor in the Lodz ghetto andintermittently in the camps. He was a witness to and participant insituations that have received little attention. The book contains a uniqueaccount of a worker demonstration in 1940, and a description of the Gypsycamp that the Nazis had created on the edge of the Lodz ghetto. It alsogives an analysis of how the antagonism between the Lodz Jews and theGerman and Czech Jews, deported to the ghetto, played itself out ineveryday life.