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I'm No Hero : Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor by Henry Friedman (2001, Trade Paperback, Reprint)

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Henry Friedman was robbed of his adolescence by the monstrous evil that annihilated millions of European Jews and changed forever the lives of those who survived. When the Nazis overran their home town near the Polish-Ukrainian border, the Friedman family was saved by Ukrainian Christians who had worked at their farm. Henry, his mother, his younger brother, and a young schoolteacher--who had been hired by his father when Jews were forbidden to attend school--were hidden in a loft over the animal stalls at a neighbor's farm; his father hid in another hayloft half a mile away.When the family was liberated by the Russians after eighteen months in hiding, Henry, at age fifteen, was emaciated and too weak to walk. The Friedmans eventually made their way to a displaced persons camp in Austria where Henry learned quickly to wheel and deal, seducing women of various ages and nationalities and mastering the intricacies of dealing in the black market. In I'm No Hero, he confronts with unblinking honesty the pain, the shame, and the bizarre comedy of his passage to adulthood.The family came to Seattle in 1949, where Henry Friedman has made his home ever since. In 1988 he returned with his wife to Brody and Suchowola, where he succeeded in finding Julia Symchuk, who, as a young girl, had warned his father that the Gestapo was looking for him, and whose family had hidden the Friedmans in their loft. The following year he was able to bring Julia to Seattle for a triumphal visit, where she was honored in many ways, although, as Friedman writes, "in her own country she had never been honored with anything except hard work."Like many other survivors, Henry Friedman has found it difficult to confront his past. Like others, too, he has felt the obligation to bear witness. Now retired, he devotes much of his time to telling his story, which he believes is a message of hope, to thousands of schoolchildren throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has received national recognition for his role in establishing the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, and as a founder of the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295981164
ISBN-13
9780295981161
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1848238

Product Key Features

Author
Henry Friedman
Publication Name
I'm No Hero : Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
216 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Sb
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
A study of survival and the creation of a new life, this is a book that resonates in the soul of the reader.
Table of Content
Foreword Acknowledgments SURVIVAL My Boyhood in Brody, Poland Captivity and Liberation My New Hobby The Survivors Confusion for My People Fleeing Poland The Black Market The Call to Palestine Adultery AMERICA Journey to America The Army and Korea The Jewelery Business Sandy The Arnie Apple Company, the World's Fair, and Family Life Israel and Other Travels Family News A Gathering of Survivors India Return to Russia Reunion A Heroine in Seattle Hope
Copyright Date
1999
Topic
Holocaust, Military / World War II, Jewish, Jewish Studies
Lccn
99-029844
Dewey Decimal
940.53/18/092
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science