I'm No Hero: Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1999. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 177 pages. Illustrations. Map. Foreword by Michael Berenbaum. A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book. Name of previous owner present. DJ has slight wear and soiling. 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. Like many other survivors, Henry Friedman has found it difficult to confront his past, but he has also 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 schoolchildren throughout the Pacific Northwest. In I'm No Hero, he confronts with unblinking honesty the pain, the shame, and the bizarre comedy of his passage to adulthood. He has received national recognition for his recollections. 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 were hidden in a loft over the animal stalls at a neighbor's farm; his father was in another hayloft half a mile away. When the family was liberated by the Russians after 18 months in hiding, The Friedmans eventually made their way to a displaced persons camp in Austria, where Henry quickly learned to wheel and deal and mastering the intricacies of the black market. 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 found Julia Symchuk, who 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. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Holocaust, Genocide, Anti-Semitism, Jews, Survival, Black Market, Palestine, Arnie Apple, Israel, Zionism, Shoah, General Sturgess, Refugees, Draftee, Korean War, 40th Infantry Division
ISBN: 9780295978017
[Book #58288]
Price: $35.00