He describes life in Radzyn-Podlaski, a typical Shtetl (small town) in the General Government (German occupied Poland), which became his way-station to Treblinka, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Dora-Mittelbau and Bergen Belsen.
He recalls life at the time of the German occupation, his contacts as a seventeen year old youth with the underground, his journey to “Aryan” Warsaw using forged papers, his hiding with a family of circus performers, his return to his home town, his capture by the Nazis, his deportation to the death camps and his struggle to survive.
The author lived through the murders of his parents, his brother, sisters and dearest friends, and evokes their voices in this memoir. After more than a half-century, Joseph Schupack fulfils a vow to those who did not survive to remember, to write the story.
