Product Description: A remarkable and compelling story about a Jewish boy´s coming of age during World War II, his survival, and ultimately, the transformation of his life as an American. Joseph Garay´s life story is an object lesson about perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- from the loss of his entire family in the concentration camps, to his survival in the Jewish Underground in Bratislava and elsewhere; from his joining the partisan underground and his enlistment in the Czechoslovakian division of the Romanian Red Army to fight the Nazis, to his meeting and marrying his wife...read more