Henry Reiss was born in 1907 in a region of Poland called Galicia. Having survived the Holocaust he began writing his incredible experience as a memoir in the displaced persons camp Ulm, Germany in 1946 and continued after his arrival to Australia. His writing stopped and started when forging a new life required all his efforts. The memoir was written in Polish, translated into English and printed and made available for his family and friends shortly after his death in 1991. His experience and his voice deserve a wider audience. Henry's voice is authorial, calm, pragmatic, brave and wryly humorous as he describes in detail the events as they unfolded to threaten him and his family. If you had ever wondered how on earth the Holocaust was executed, Henry's first-person account and gift for narration allows a deep understanding of the Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian and German interactions that were soils on which the evils of the Holocaust flourished. Henrys resilience and appreciation of life's beauty prevents the reading of such painful events from becoming overwhelming. Henry survived with his wife Lusia and two children Elzunia and Krysia. Almost all of Henry and Luisa's extended family including parents, siblings, many aunts and uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews were all murdered. Read more about this authorRead less about this author