The parents, Aba and Etl, took care to keep the children from illness and starvation. They wanted their children to join for the Jewish new-year holiday, Passover, Purim, but it's impossible in his own country.
By effort to unmask the robbers, Aba discovered a cruel deadly hatred threatening the future of his native folk and safety of his family. Soon he perished from the robber's hand.
Mendel wonted to leave to go to the city of Kiev to continue his education, but the fascist invasion interrupted the studies and he get under way at the front. He wanted to believe the Red Army is invisible, however tragedy defense of Kiev to make certain that is only a myth. To be captivated half of million soviet soldiers. Mendel succeeds to tear away from the captivity near native town. There he found his mother and sisters in the ghetto.
"Explain me, oh my God, why strong, powerful, healthy men put down the arms to the leg of murderers of their families?"- Exclaimed a girl from the ghetto faced Mendl.
Attempts to join the partisans group were unsuccessful.
In the mean time, a punitive group took away the Jewish inhabitants of the town to shoot them. Mendel together with his friend called to all of Jewish people to run. He shot ahead over double obstruction of CC command and Ukrainian nationalistic police. Not many had a success rescue. The mother and sister Lucy were lost.
Mendel and Golde overcame mortally dangerous 500 mile way to the front and turn out to the free from the occupiers territory. Mendel again to put into commission. More than two year of embittered battles and retribution is come.
Любые мои усилия по выходу в свет этой книги не могли бы увенчаться успехом без активного и заинтересованного участия родных и близких мне людей.
Выражаю глубокую благодарность, а также искреннюю признательность:
Дорогой жене моей, Алле, бессменной помощнице в мучительных родах этого трагического повествования, создавшей все необходимые условия для успешной работы;
Любимому сыну моему, Евгению, который проявил большую настойчивость, вдохновив меня на этот нелегкий труд, и оказал неоценимую помощь при написании этой книги;
Замечательной моей невестке Полине, приложившей немало усилий для публикации фрагментов книги в Израиле;
Глубокоуважаемой госпоже Софии Вильямс за весьма ценные замечания;
Неутомимому ведущему компьютерной литбиблиотеки Борису Бердичевскому за редактирование и форматирование книги и опубликование ее в сети Интернет.
