For this reason, the Author feels obligated to share his story. The only way to stop tragedies from happening again is not letting people forget their tragic experiences of the past. A thought keeps coming to the Author's mind: Some people who miraculously survived the concentration camps are still alive, but now we can see the revival of the same things that not long ago led to the tragedy of the Holocaust. It tells about the Author's endless and desperate struggle for fairness in the Soviet mendacious inhuman system in which he was forced to live. However, unlike the first book, this one narrates with more details about the author's professional life, about his fight for the professional higher education, and for realization of his dream. The book continues description of the author's life under Soviet regime, but this time the book tells about the Author's life outside of personal and family affairs and covers roughly the same period of time as the first book. The second book, titled Etched in My Memory: Stories from Life of a Former Soviet Invalid of the Fifth Line is also a part of the author's recollections about his life in the former USSR.

The first book, Family Matters and More: Stories of My Life in Soviet Russia tells mostly about members of his family and the most important family events. Actually the author devoted to his life in the former Soviet Union two books of his memoirs. In this book, Sol Tetelbaum describes his everyday life in Soviet Russia as it was, with relevant details, and some phenomena and events that had the greatest impact upon him. Most of them are historic or depict pieces of a person's life in extreme situations.

Many books have been written about Soviet Russia.

Etched in My Memory by Sol Tetelbaum