The issue is devoted to the broadly understood problem of escapes from the Holocaust. The disgraceful attack by Vladimir Putin's Russia on Ukraine and its people has made this issue dramatically topical. Since the beginning of the war on February 24, 2022, Poland's borders have been crossed by hundreds of thousands of refugees from occupied areas and threatened by terror, unprecedented in the 21st century in Europe, on the part of the aggressors.

The choice of escapes as the most important topic of the volume was dictated not by the current context (Russian aggression could not have been predicted when designing this volume), but by the importance of this issue, which provoked various research questions. They concern, for example, the ways and possibilities of estimating the total number of ghetto escapees and their chances of survival.