They were poor and oppressed, but not unhappy. They rose above the surrounding non-Jewish population with their moral and virtuous life, with the good education they gave to their children, and with their close family ties. They did not leave those unlucky in their fate to be abandoned, despite the generally difficult economic situation. With this book we will acquaint you with the life and tragic death of the last generation of Ivye Jews. We will also make known the fight for revenge of the Ivye youth in the forests and on the battlefront against the exterminators of our people.
Tears are too limited, for there to be enough weeping for the enormity of the catastrophe.
The injustice and the enormity of the misfortune has so completely shaken and unbalanced us that we have not even mourned our own dear ones, who were not separated in their lives or deaths. May this memorial book be an eternal gravestone for all generations for the holy Ivye community which was wiped off the face of the earth by the German murderers, may their names and memory of them be blotted out. There follows a description of the difficulties of dealing with the materials, both in collecting and then in trying to write. How facts were checked, and how that was difficult as well.