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The memoirs of Joseph Buchbinder (1908 - 1993) tell the story of the transformation of a native of a shtetl in Polissya into a Jewish writer in the tragic realities of the Bolshevik experiment in Ukraine. The author's memory recalls his meetings with famous contemporary writers and the years of the Second World War. Through his eyes, readers will be able to see the post-war Stalinist repressions against Jews, which led the memoirist to the Gulag, and the famous Kęgir Prisoner Uprising of 1954. This is the first complete edition of Joseph Buchbinder's memoirs based on the Yiddish-language original, which was preserved in the writer's personal archive.