Turkov's "Tzentral Varband für Polishe Yidn in Argentina" (Central Union of Polish Jews in Argentina) published the book in 1956 in Buenos Aires as the 245-page "Un di velt hot geshvign" (; "And the World Remained Silent"). It was the 117th book in a 176-volume series of Yiddish memoirs of Poland and the war, "Dos poylishe yidntum" ("Polish Jewry", 1946–1966). Ruth Wisse writes that "Un di Velt Hot Geshvign" stood out from the rest of the series, which survivors wrote as memorials to their dead, as a "highly selective and isolating literary narrative".