Memoirs of Shulamit Zelda (Damesek) Gordon, born in Nieswiez, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Nieswiez, the Mir Ghetto and with the partisans in the forest Life before the war. German occupation, 27 June 1941; restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; robbing of property; deportation to the Mir Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto and murder of the Jews in killing pits, 29 October 1941; finding a hiding place in a cellar; escape to a forest; life in the forest with the partisans; participation in acts of revenge against the Nazis; receiving help from the Red Cross; liberation. Move to a kibbutz in Fernwald; unsuccessful aliya attempt on the ship, "Exodus"; deportation to Hamburg; transfer to Marseilles; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Providence", 1947.