Bythe time theLibRohmanwas born,his fatherwas sixty.When hewas fiveyears old his fatherdied,andLeib andhis sisterMiriamwas brought up byhis mother,Rebecca.the age of elevenbegan to studythe Lifein theyeshiva.at sixteenRohmangotSmichov- the title ofrabbi.At the age ofdvadtsati-yearsyoung manleavesyeshivaandsentto Warsaw,where he began topublishin the newspaper "Dermoment", publishedin Yiddish.
After theNazis occupiedPoland, thefall of 1939,Rohmanreturns to hishometown.He soonmarried.WeddingLeib andEstherwas the lasthappy event inzhiznLlocalJewish community:a few days later, many JewsMinska-Mazowieckiwere killedandthe survivorsweresent to concentration camps.HowRohmanuLeib, his wife,her sister,Tzipora, andsome friendsmanaged to escapefrom the campand escape,you will learnfrom this book.In essence, thisdiary, whichRohmanledthroughout thelong months ofGerman occupation,the writerprocessed it, and publishedafter the war.