Without the devotion of the Ghetto Fighters House International Museum and Shrine, the individual members of the Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz in Israel and their comrades in the International Survivors Association, these pages could scarcely have been written.

Sheer weight of numbers precludes my thanking the others but I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the contribution of the Yad Vashem Memorial Archives in Jerusalem and the University of Southern California Library.

Within a framework of basic truth, tempered with a rsasonable amount of artistic license, the places and events described actually happened

The characters are fictitious, but I would be the last to deny there were people who lived who were similar to those in this volume.