Father's Legacy: Remembrance of a Holocaust Childhood

by Henry Greenblatt

Henry Greenblatt, in this remarkable narrative, chronicles the unimaginable events of what we now call The Holocaust. Henry writes about the experience of his family, who helped each other to survive, to escape, to escape again—until, finally, there was no escape. This is a true story. It is about a family and it is about survival. But most of all, it is a story about a father’s heroic split-second choice to save his son. “My father had made the decision that I should live. He hadn't given me a choice, but I intended to obey him,” Henry writes. And, finally, the story is about the aftermath of that decision for a brave little boyhungry, frightened, alone in the worldand the cruel hardships he endured in order to fulfill his father’s last that his son should live to tell what happened. “I have been struggling with this story for half a century,” Henry says. “But I had to become an old man before I could write it.”

260 pages, Paperback

Published May 20, 2008