1. A prologue that could also be an epilogue -- 2. Between Theresienstadt and Auschwitz -- 3. The final liquidation of the 'family camp' -- Autumn 1944: Auschwitz, ghostly metropolis -- 5. Observations and perplexities about senes in the memory -- 6. Three poems from the brink of the gas chambers -- 7. Journey to the satellite city of the metropolis of death -- 8. Landscapes of a private mythology -- 9. Rivers which cannot be crossed and the 'Gate of the Law' -- 10. In search of history and memory : three chapters from the diaries -- 11. Dream: Jewish Prague and the great death -- 12. Doctor Mengele frozen in time -- 13. God's grieving.