He is still a child, and yet he experienced the unimaginable horrors of concentration camps. And now Buchenwald block 66 awaits him.

January 1945. Fourteen-year-old Moše Kessler steps out of a transport at the Buchenwald concentration camp. He survived the ghetto, selection on the platform in Auschwitz, hunger, exhaustion, the death march. He only knows one thing about Buchenwald. If he wants to survive, he has to get to Block 66.

The book is a moving personal testimony of Moše Kessler about his childhood in Subcarpathian Rus and about the fate of the Jewish minority there during and after the Second World War. Among other things, it also brings the inspiring story of the so-called children's block in Buchenwald, where thousands of impoverished prisoners from the death marches were headed at the end of the war. It was here that a prison resistance group headed by Czech communist and political prisoner Antonín Kalina managed to save 904 Jewish children at the risk of their own lives.