Memoirs of the author, who was interned in the Warsaw ghetto and worked as a doctor in the children's hospital there. Relates the suffering and persecution in the ghetto. When the hospital was about to be liquidated, Szwajger went over to the "Aryan side" (in January 1943) and worked for the resistance - the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB) - as a courier. She later participated in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. After the war she became a pediatrician in Warsaw.