Given name: Beniamin Family name: Horowitz

The author was the Supply Section clerk in the Warsaw Ghetto. Worked on his work while hiding in Warsaw on the 'Aryan side,' after the liberation he redrafted the work. The typescript was prepared fro printing at the 'Wiedza' publishing house (stylistic editing, rather insignificant changes due to censorship). The author returned to the Jewish issues after 1986 (fictionalizing memories 'Bron in Warsaw' under the name 'Wladyslaw B. Pawlak,' published by Iskry in 1986).