Afterword by Alain Lipietz Through the story of her parents, survivors of the Warsaw ghetto, Michèle Goldstein-Narvaez offers us a document where love, the will to live, optimism, humor, lucidity, and a bit of luck too, triumph over the apocalypse. She brings to life the voices of the ghetto through found letters that her family exchanged in 1940. She recounts the journey of some across the world, the heartbreak and anxiety of separation, the adventure of her father and his mother, who survived in the sewers, but also the Polish Resistance and the expectation of the Allies. A historical and personal testimony which also allows us to understand the uprooting and the traces left by the Shoah on its victims and their descendants.