Jewish Studies. Born in a small town outside of Warsaw in 1889, Bernard Goldstein joined the Jewish labor organization, the Bund, at age 16 and dedicated his life to organizing workers and resisting tyranny. Goldstein spent time in prisons from Warsaw to Siberia, took part in the Russian Revolution and was a respected organizer within the brilliant labor movement in independent Poland. After the liberation of Poland, Goldstein emigrated to America, where he penned this account. "His active leadership before the war and his position in the Jewish underground during it qualify him as the chronicler of the last hours of Warsaw's picture with all its shadings-the good with the bad, the cowardly with the heroic, the disgraceful with the glorious. This is his valedictory, his final service to the Jews of Warsaw"--Leonard Shatzkin.