Memoirs of Joseph Konskovolski, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Lwow, fighting with the Red Army in Taganrog and with Kosciuszko, the First Division, in Lenino and more Life in Lwow before the war; visiting family in Warsaw together with his wife, August 1939. Outbreak of the war and escape to Lwow; life in Lwow; call-up for training in the context of reserve duty with the Red Army, May 1941; air-raids on an airfield in Sknilow near Lwow, 22 June 1941; retreat with Red Army troops into the Soviet Union under incessant battles; injury in a battle near Taganrog; evacuation to an Army hospital in Rostov on the Don; transfer to various hospitals due to air-raids by the German Army; transfer to Moscow, 1943; joined the ranks of the First Division, named Kosciuszko, after repeated requests, September 1943; transfer to the front; participation in battles in Lenino and Smolensk and crossing of the Bug River, July 1944; transfer to Lublin; life in Lublin; visit to Majdanek; receiving news of the murder of his wife and his son in Lwow; transfer with the Red Army towards Pomorze; establishment of a field hospital in Sepolno; life in Sepolno under siege by the German Army; travel in a truck filled with wounded under incessant bombing and shooting to beyond enemy lines in order to summon help; transfer to the outskirts of Berlin, April 1945; transfer of the field hospital to a former mental hospital building. finding antique Jewish books of great value in the building. Remarriage, 1945; life in Poland in the Haganah recruitment aliya training; life in Marseilles; aliya to Israel, July 1948; life in Israel.