Автобиография потерявшего память

"Spasibo za nashe schastlivoe detstvo". A voĭna v otvet: "Pozhaluĭsta". Dachnoe leto obryvaetsi͡a, ne uspev nachatʹsi͡a. "U bombezhki - zapakh pechenoĭ kartoshki". Krasnai͡a armii͡a vse eshche vsekh silʹneĭ? Mama ne znaet chto i dumatʹ. Vzorvany mosty cherez Dnepr, nekuda bezhatʹ. Nemet͡skiĭ soldat so slovami "Ne boĭsi͡a" proti͡agivaet rebenku solenoe pechenʹe. Pervye ogorchenii͡a: khotel smenitʹ okti͡abri͡atskui͡u zvezdochku na zheltui͡u, vykroennui͡u iz maminogo platʹi͡a - net, on eshche malenʹkiĭ, tolʹko s desi͡ati let. Likvidat͡sii͡a getto. Komu-to udaetsi͡a uskolʹznutʹ, no komu? Tomu li, ot chʹego imeni vedetsi͡a rasskaz? Kogo v deĭstvitelʹnosti khranila sudʹba v ego stranstvii͡akh po Evrope? Ob ėtom chitatelʹ uznaët lishʹ v kont͡se knigi.

"Thank you for our happy childhood." And the war in response: "Please." Summer in the country ends before it begins. "The bombing has the smell of baked potatoes." Is the Red Army still the strongest of all? Mom doesn't know what to think. Bridges across the Dnieper have been blown up, there is nowhere to run. A German soldier with the words "Don't be afraid" hands a salty cookie to a child. The first upsets: I wanted to change the October star to a yellow one, cut out of my mother's dress — no, he is still small, only from the age of ten. Liquidation of the ghetto. Someone manages to escape, but who? Is it the one on whose behalf the story is being told? Who did fate really keep in his wanderings in Europe? The reader will learn about this only at the end of the book.