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The article examines the adoption of the image of a sinking ship to introduce the memoir "In the Courtyards of Death" by Eliezer Gruenbaum published in "Scrolls of Fire." It says that Gruenbaum uses the first person plural, we, in the second paragraph of the memoir to refer to the Holocaust victims of Auschwitz in Poland. It explains how Gruenbaum achieved his desire to become affiliated with his readers by narrating the solitude of being a kapo. In the authors' view, the power that animates his memoir represents the commitment of Gruenbaum to activism.