This story was originally published in the newspaper 'Haladas' in weekly instalments, the first appearing on 30 May 1946.Concentrating on his experiences in the Nagyvarad ghetto, and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine, Zsolt provides not only a rare insight into Hungarian fascism, but also a shocking exposure of the cruelty, indifference, selfishness, cowardice and betrayal of which human beings- the victims no less than the perpetrators - are capable of in extreme circumstances