I'm No Hero: Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor

by Henry Friedman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295981164
• ISBN13: 9780295981161
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A Powerful book about survival, redemption and hope

For me this book was truly a Godsend. Because I was never aware of the complete history of my family's experience during the holocaust, I always hungered to know the truth. When I recieved the book, "I'm no Hero" written by my Uncle, it filled in a part of my heritage that I truly needed to understand. I could not put the book down and to think that my Uncle has now dedicated the last years of his life re living this horrific part of his past to educate students all over the country I can only say,while his book is entitled "I'm no Hero" in my book he is.

amazing life journey

Henry Friedman's life story is played out against the horrors of the holocaust and how one teenager survived with some family members, and ultimately triumphed in America. His life as a hidden teenager is a riveting account of sheer dogged determination to survive under horrendous conditions. The reader is enthralled as he survives one episode to the next. Considering how honest the author is about his growing sexuality, this book should be made into a Hollywood movie. But it is ultimately a tale of the triumph of the human spirit to survive! A must read in any collection on holocaust survivors.Other books of a similar theme include Harold Werner's "Fighting Back"(although Werner was older and was a partisan, which Henry wasn't), Larry Orbach's "Soaring Underground"(although Orbach lived in Nazi Germany), and Thomas Blatt's "From the Ashes of Sobibor" (although Blatt's adventure included stays in the concentration camp prior to his escape/hiding)