The document outlines key events in the author's experience during the Holocaust, including being forced from his home and transported in a crowded cattle car, arriving at the Birkenau concentration camp where he was separated from his mother and sister, and going through selection processes and having his possessions taken at Auschwitz before being forced to leave on a death march and undergoing foot surgery. He later reached Buchenwald camp before being liberated in April after his father had died.