This book constitutes the first of three planned volumes of documents regarding the Kieke pogrom. According to the editors, the others will include documents of state and Church authorities, political parties, opinions, commentaries, and reports (vol. ii) and material from planned academic conferences devoted to the Kieke pogrom (vol. iii). The most important documents, the editors state, are those from the three trials which are included in the first volume. These materials come from the State Archive in Kieke and the Central Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Warsaw. The documents are presented in the chronological order of the trials, and are taken from the proceedings of July, November, and December 1946. In addition to these, the first volume includes protocols from the interrogations of witnesses and suspects, as well as indictments and the protocols of cases and verdicts. Documents from the July trial have been supplemented by both the medical and the court examinations of pogrom victims, and by the protocol regarding the execution of nine Poles sentenced in July 1946. In his introduction Stanislaw Meducki presents a history of the Jews in Kieke from the nineteenth century to the 1946 pogrom. In addition, the work includes a calendar of the tragedy prepared by Zenon Wrona, covering the period July to December 1946. Also included are maps of Kieke city centre, the neighbourhood of Planty Street, and other Kieke districts, as well as photographs.

There is much to disagree with in the brief history of Kieke Jewry in the introduction, especially those sections devoted to the period after 1945. Meducki's statement that ‘Jews did not have problems regaining their property if it had not been plundered by Germans’ conflicts with documents of the Ministerstwo Administracji Publicznej (MAP: Ministry of Public Administration) regarding this region. In the month of June alone, according to MAP, thirteen Jews were murdered in the county of Kieke, ten of whom were involved in disputes over Jewish property.

Meducki's characterization of postwar antisemitism is also questionable. The (correct) statement that the wider context of anti-Jewish behaviour was a multilayered phenomenon is supported by a single example of preferential hiring, which according to the editors corroborates their opinion concerning the privileged position of Jews.