Translated from the Hebrew

“To Miriam and Yoska

For the birth
of your daughter
Ruti.

Rachel and Shlomo Rozen”

“Writen by my uncle Shlomo in 1941. Shlomo (my mother’s brother-in-law) was a soldier killed in the war of 1948, and the book tells the terrible story of his getting out of Poland under the German occupation. The name of the book means: Out of the Collapse.”

—Ruti in Tel Aviv