Captivity is always a tragedy, but during World War II there was one category of prisoners who were subject to unconditional destruction on the basis of nationality: captured Jews were doomed to death. And only a few of them miraculously managed to survive, hiding their Jewishness and taking fictitious or alien names and surnames, but lived under the eternal fear of “exposure.” In this book, Soviet Jewish prisoners of war who survived the war against fascism talk about their tragic fate - about their comrades and saviors, about their traitors and murderers. They tell the story without looking back - the way it really happened.