My private war : one man's struggle to survive the Soviets and the Nazis

Memoirs of the author (1907-1990), written in 1944 in Romania and completed in Tel-Aviv in 1945. Book two (pp. 51-192) appeared in Hebrew (translated from the Polish ms.) as "Be-ayn nakam..." (Tel-Aviv: Am Oved, 1945) under the name he adopted in Israel, Maltiel. Gerstenfeld was born in Lvov. At the beginning of World War II, he fled from Warsaw to Soviet-occupied Lvov. In June 1941 he was caught by the Germans and interned in the ghetto; later he was interned in the Janowska camp. Describes the negative role played by the Lvov Judenrat and by the Jewish militia in the deception of the Jews. In 1942 he managed to get false documents and left the ghetto for Dnepropetrovsk. In 1943 he fled to Romania, and then to Bulgaria and Palestine. Pp. ix-xxii contain the introduction by Polonsky. Book one deals with Gerstenfeld's life in Soviet Lvov; book three deals with his life after his escape to Dnepropetrovsk. xxii, 313 pages : portrait ; 23 cm.