Martin Gray underwent the most atrocious tests. Three times death struck at its sides the beings which were expensive to him, leaving it only surviving: his/her mother and her brothers killed in the gas chamber of the camp of Treblinka, his/her father killed under his eyes with the head of risen of the ghetto of Warsaw. October 3, 1970, his Dina wife and her four children died in the fire of forest of Tanneron.

Martin Gray wanted that a book pays homage to the memory those which it lost, with the memory also all those which disappeared like his. Its account is one of more upsetting which can be read.

This work obtained the price of the literary Merit "Dag Hammarskjöld ".

In this book which is the continuation of For Those I Loved, Martin Gray analyzes his life after the death of his Dina wife and his four children at the time of the fire to Tanneron on October 3, 1970.
During ten years, the writer had lived moments of happiness with its family; it makes us divide them. Then the drama occurs. Martin Gray loses to them his for the second time. During weeks, it lives in their memory, not changing any toy of place.

It reveals us also the problems, misfortunes of others couples. It us of writing how those react against the existence proof. In the life, the passion which one dedicates to something can help us to live, with to go further. Martin Gray learns to us also how much "the other" can comfort us, us to give again hope thanks to a simple word, a benign gesture. Just like this old woman who one day saw it, not to ask him one autograph, but to thank it for having given again courage with his small daughter.

This book is intended to each man who, one day, is questioned on the direction of its life; despair, sadness met, so that it finds "happiness, courage and the hope" by it self.

It will be noticed that each chapter ends in a drawing: a tree. This one was drawn by Cecile, the girl of a printer, friend of Mr Gray. "It had talent in spite of its 12 or 13 years. Moreover, the topic tree was selected because it is the symbol of the Man. One and the other goes together ".

This book, Martin Gray wrote to help the people who wonder about the direction of the life.

For those which seek how to express the richness, the invention, the need for love which they carry in them. It is thus not one novel. It includes exercises to be practised at home in order to know and to know to keep under control oneself.

We will note that it is strewn with interrogations like white pages lines so that the reader can register his reflexions there personal.

Martin Gray takes again the thoughts expressed in italic in the Book of Life and develops them more amply. It acts in some left a summary of the second book

This book, Martin Gray writes it for his wife, "for Virginia, which gave me Barbara ". The first chapter introduces a man to us confronted with the joy that the birth of his Barbara daughter gets to him and it torment which corrodes it when he thinks of his exterminated in Treblinka, or tragically disappeared at the time of the fire of Tanneron, seven years earlier.

Having left his wife at the hospital, Martin Gray thinks that it is "happy". However, he doesn’t manage to admit it. Its memories it torments. He doesn’t have any more courage to live. While returning at his place conveys some, he adopts a control more than dangerous on the road of the “Barons”, in order to to cause Death. When he turns over to seek his wife and his daughter, Martin Gray is in peace with the past.

Then, Martin Gray depicts us the seven years which preceded its meeting with Virginia, its young wife. These seven years are populated of doubts, of questions, hope and despair, scandalous insinuations as for the loss as of his. But there are also the friends who, by their solicitude, constitute a factor of encouragement.

 

In this book, Martin Gray treats of 365 different topics. One topic for each day of the year. That goes from the birth to death, in passing by the love, the life and other subjects which populate our daily newspaper.

As the title indicates it, in this book, Martin Gray address yourself "to the men of tomorrow", with the generations to come which will have to live in the world that we will have left them, a world of uncertainty, turning between "hatred and the love", tenderness and violence, friendship and hatred, exploitation of others.

« I gave the form of a fable to what emerges from my memory. Formerly, in a completely destroyed city, whereas I was only one unhappy combatant wandering among the debris, I discovered in the medium of ruins and in the night, a small girl. And I tested, in this time already, to build for this child a human House. ».

« Those that the present and the future worry and which do not resign »
« The future is not awaited as a train is awaited. Future, it is done »
(George Bernanos)

Here is the first page, the introduction of this new book in which Martin Gray entrusts to us that it is afraid, not to die because death always comes a day, but this fear which it tests is for the future of his children, of all the children.

(in French)

For you, your children, for me and mine, each one us, the ten years which come are the moment of the great choice of our lives.
The year 2000 is with our doors. It for us will be, our children, a barbarian age, that of hatred, or, because we have them means, the time of the love?
I traversed the world, I saw our time such as it is. The adventure of our future, of our future starts here.

 

On the basis of a «fact various» which has occurred in Great Britain, Martin Gray tries to include/understand what could push two ten year old children to be tortured, then to kill, another three year old child. This drama enables him to introduce it topic of its book: why this hatred, this destruction of the other; why this crisis?

 

One morning, whereas he was yet only one child, Martin Gray entered the room of his/her parents. Those had sat in reads and had passed their arms above the shoulders one of the other: their heads touched themselves. It had contemplated them and, tasting with this peace, it had been put to request "so that this moment always lasts".

"I had had for ten years selected silence. But how not to shout when my children, my close relations, my readers question me. They know that I am a witness of cruelty. Does that start again? they ask me.

They speak about profaned cemeteries. Words of hatred. War. Concern. Does violence the injustice, racism, go to always darken the future of the men? I must answer these anguishes. I must show to other ways for man. I must say that the hope remains. I want that my anger is heard, and also my hope."

At eighty-two years, Martin Gray is the alive memory tragedy of XXè century, and the incarnation of the hope in the life. Escaped prisoner of death camp of Treblinka, combatant of the ghetto of Warsaw, it enters as a winner in Berlin with the Russian army. With State-Plain, it makes fortune. In France, where it saw, the tragedy strikes it again. Its wife and her four children succumb in a fire of forest close to Cannes. This misfortune, it fact a force. Its books, In the name of all mine and ten other works bring, wisdom, reason of living and hoping to million readers in the world.

« For those I loved » is a cry of anger, an act of fraternity and a message of hope.