I'm No Hero: the Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: University of Washington Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
When the family was liberated by the Russians after 18 months in hiding, Henry was not yet 16, emaciated and too weak to walk. The Friedmans eventually made their way to a displaced persons camp in Austria, where Henry quickly learned to wheel and deal, seducing women of various ages and nationalities, and mastering the intricacies of 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 found 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, but he has alsofelt 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. He has received national recognition for his role in establishing the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and as a founder of the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center.
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