Jack Eisner was 13 in 1939, when the German troops entered Warsaw. Along with his sister -who trained with him- he came out of the Warsaw Ghetto for the first time in search of
a little food. After removing their armbands, they secretly unearthed a few potatoes.
In this way, he became one of the many little “szmooglers” going over the Wall in spite of the danger to feed his family and earn a little money by selling the fruit of his labor.
He was in the Ghetto at the April 1943 revolt. Made prisoner, then deported to Maidanek, Eisner escaped and joined the Polish Resistance. Captured again by the Germans, he experienced the horrors of Butzyn Camp,
the Flossenburg Camp where he was briefly reunited with Halina, his childhood love, who then “worked” in the brothel for German officers. He was liberated by the American troops in May, 1945. After emigrating to the United States, Eisner made a fortune in business, then gave up everything to devote himself to writing his autobiography: “The
