Memoirs of Doctor of Philology, Professor of Voronezh State Pedagogical University Sergei Samuilovich Berkner, a native of Bialystok, participant in the underground resistance in the Bialystok ghetto (1941–1943), and later a partisan of the Forois detachment and the brigade named after. Kalinovsky. In lively and vivid language, the author writes about the life of pre-war Bialystok, still Polish, about family, about the beginning of the war and the first repressions against the Jewish population, about events in which he directly participated as a young man. The book, written in the late 1990s, also includes testimonies and memories of eyewitnesses of the uprising in the Bialystok ghetto (August 1943), photographs and documents collected by the author in the post-war years. For a wide range of readers. The publication uses photographs from the author’s archive , National Digital Archive of Poland, Yad Vashem Archive (Israel) and East-West Agency.