the jaws of the wolf

"Thousands of people have worked, thousands have been dragged off, thousands went off voluntarily. Only I, the whole time, for 10 weeks, have been hiding, however threatened with the severest consequences. I shall not willingly crawl into the jaws of the wolf. That's what I've decided."

~~ from The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939—1944 by Herman Kruk