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.
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