GENERATIONS starts with the author's overview of Polish/Jewish interactions over a thousand years from the times of Ibrahim ibn Yakub, a Jewish traveler-merchant-diplomat from Arab Spain, who in 965 A.D. was the first to mention a town called Kracko and continuing all the way to the Holocaust. It then proceeds from pre-historic legends to historic details about Krakovian Jewish courtiers serving the King Casimir the Great in 1350 and the Polish Renaissance Queens Elizabeth of Bohemia and Bona Sforza around 1500, all at the royal court in Krakw. The major part of the book deals with the history of Krakw Jewry as illuminated by the specific lives and genealogy of the author's Aleksandrowicz forebears and their friends and neighbors. It ends with the author's experiences as a child in Krakw (1925-1943) and his survival in the Ghetto, the concentration camps in Plaszw, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee. The book is the result of 11 years of research. It contains a number of copies of original historic family documents written in archaic Polish, which the author transcribed and translated into English, scores of other documents and photographs, a bibliography and an index.

Two novels and one story by Boris Sandler, the well-known Yiddish prose writer, are included under the title page of the book "Red Shoes for Rachel." The heroes of all three works are about to make crucial decisions. The first novel, "Somewhere Along the Byways of Longing," centers on the theme of the decline and passing of the generation that survived the Holocaust. In the second novel, "Red Shoes for Rachel," the psychological state of the children of the survivors, a result of the dark and shattering experience of their parents, is depicted. The heroes of the third story, "Studies of Solfeggio," suddenly discover the magic of "kama sutra."