A private war : surviving in Poland on false papers, 1941-1945

pt. I. The Estate of Borek Szlackecki, 1942

Old Count Potocki. Military Levies. Farm Workers. Labor Shortages. Our Jewish Workers. The Apprentice Steward

Concentration of the Jews. Silberman and the Sacred Scriptures. The Visit of Hans Zwickel. The Old Count and the Horse Trader

Rescuing Maria Friede

The Deportation of the Jews. The Eyewitness. Betrayal

Przemysl and Cracow: Childhood and Youth

pt. II. Przemysl and Cracow: Childhood and Youth

My Father. Logging in the Carpathians. My Mother. The Thirty-Six Righteous Ones. Troubles at the Gymnasium. Summers. The Jaroslaw Gymnasium. Father Szypula

My Arrival in Cracow. The Cracowians. A Night at the Death Trap. The Cracow Cabby. The Jewish Dormitory. A Hearty Welcome from the Walds. Szymek. The Tourist Guide. The Girl in the Butchershop

Law School. Professor Kumaniecki. Syclla and Charybdis. Examinations. My New Profession. Professor Kryzanowski. Count Rostworowski. Professor Taubenschlag

Legal Practice. The Cracow Jewry. The Jewish Arbitration Committees. My Jewish Clients

I Fall in Love. "Authoritomania." I Meet Basia's Family

Flight to the East. The Snake. Jurek

Massacre. Hoddwinking the Germans. Traveling on the General's Papers. Back to Przemysl

Przemysl under the Russians. The Warehouse. Przemysl Friends. The Germans Invade Russia. Przemysl under the Germans

Moving Back to Cracow. Obtaining False Papers. Into the Cracow Ghetto. Rescuing my Furniture. Again Przemysl

Wrapping Up Businerss at the Supply Yard. Dr. Schmidt. Last-Minute Preparations. Getting Estabolished In Cracow

pt. III. Fight for Survival, 1942-45

My Decision. Replacing the Steward. The New Steward

Moving My Family from Przemysl. My Brother-in-Law, Chief of the Arbeitsamt

My Last Meeting with Masia's Family. Basia's Mother Leaves the Ghetto. The SS Man and the Little Girl. Ritulka

Leon and Sara. Roudup on the Train

The Old Count Mellows. I Play Real-Estate Broker. Jerzy and I Grow Apart. House Guests

The Hunt. Jews and Rabbits. Gypsy

My Intelligence Network. Letters from Magda. Deciphering the Trains. Official News. "The Overwhelming Might of the Enemy." The Ever-Changing Trains. A Dangerous Rumor

Unpleasant Surprises. A Friend from Cracow. My Father's Emergency. Shutting Mann's Mouth. Basia's Encounter

Mother's Last Wish. The Burial Procession. Helena. Irena's Christening

Visit to the Mountaineers. A Nazi Tea Party

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. Dragnet. The Seczkowskis

The Front Moves. Partisans. The Rescue. Our House at the Front. Across the Ice by Wheelbarrow

I Cross the Front. The Battle of the Tanks. The Fireworks Display. The War Ends