The books is divided into two sections: Part one is the first person account of the author's father, Israel, in the Concentration Camps of Treblinka, Majdanek, Buchenwald, and Matthausen. Part two is the author's analysis of the impact of the Holocaust on the second generation, raised under the shadow of the Holocaust. There is additional poetry written by the author's daughter, reflecting on her feelings upon returning to the camps where her grandfather was tortured.