At just twelve years old, Janina Hescheles was rescued in 1943 from the Lviv "Janowski" concentration camp (Lwów, Lemberg, Lemberik) in eastern Galicia, then belonging to Poland, by a group of the Jewish Resistance. There she lived a hell of death and persecution, from the entry of the Germans on June 30, 1941 until October 1943, a few days before the camp was liquidated. The Holocaust reduced her childhood to an abyss from which she escaped thanks to her intellectual maturity. Now safe, in a clandestine home in Krakow, she received a notebook and a pencil so that she could write down her experiences in the ghetto and in the Lviv concentration camp, where her entire family was murdered.

These memoirs are a unique historical testimony in several ways. In its pages appear all the characteristic elements of the concentration camp: organization, management and bureaucracy of the countryside, blackmailing, cruelty, criminality, clandestinity, murders. But, in addition, they are the personal experiences of a ten-year-old girl who, after being torn from her mother's arms, she saw the imaginative, hopeful and unconscious world of childhood suddenly destroyed. Janina was violently thrown into adult life from the moment her mother explained to her that she had to get away from her to escape and survive, thus allowing her, one more Jewish woman, condemned by the Nazi executioners, to commit suicide with the poison that always carried in her pocket and that it would free her from a painful and humiliating death. Janina fled from everywhere, until she was finally able to be freed from her captivity, gifting humanity with her testimony, unpublished until now in Spanish.