Levi Shalit (1916-1994) was born in Kuybyshev (now Samara), Russia, and raised in Lithuania. During World War II, he was confined in the ghetto in Siauliai, Lithuania, then transported to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. After the war, he lived in Munich, where the original Yiddish-language edition of this book, Azoy zaynen mir geshtorbn, was published.

Veronica Belling is author of Bibliography of South African Jewry and Yiddish Theatre in South Africa: A History from the Late Nineteenth Century to 1960. She is translator of Leibl Feldman's Jews in Johannesburg and author of many scholarly articles.

Justin Cammy is a professor of Jewish studies and world literatures at Smith College.

Ellen Cassedy is translator of On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash, the cotranslator (with Yermiyahu Ahron Taub) of Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel, and author of We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust.

Andrew Cassel is a former newspaper editor and reporter. He is cotranslator (with Gabriel Laufer) of Notes from the Valley of Slaughter: A Memoir from the Ghetto of Siauliai, Lithuania by Aharon Pick.