Foreword viiAcknowledgments xiPrologue: From the Holocaust to a New Life 1A Happy Childhood in Lodz 7Golden Summers 22Winds of War 29My Dog Lala, a Child's Best Friend 37Moving to the Ghetto 45Ghetto Life 55Working in the Ghetto 61The Beginning of the End 70Auschwitz ... Children of the Holocaust 77Life in Auschwitz 87Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp 98Flossenburg Concentration Camp 106Germany After Liberation 114Reunion At Last 126Coming to America 135Living Through Ballyhoo 142My Brother Leon 159The Business World 168Big Business in The Big Apple 175Photo Section 194The Birth of Namor 218The Dreyfus Affair (David vs. Goliath) 226Starting a Family 236Communal Involvement 254WAGRO (Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization) 255The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) 256JFR (The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous) 261The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors 267Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Summer Fellowship Teachers Program 282The Claims Conference (Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) 287The German Foundation Initiative 316ICHEIC (The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims) 333The Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the U.S. (Presidential Commission) 348Reflections on the United Nations Commemoration for the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz 356Postscript 363Selected Speeches1996 Humanitarian Award Presented to Roman Kent Seventh Annual Interfaith Concert of Remembrance Cathedral of St. John The Divine November 16, 1996 367Remarks by Roman Kent Chairman, American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Vice President, Claims Conference, Berlin, German Foreign Ministry Bundestag-July 17, 2000 370Remarks by Roman Kent Acceptance of Harvey Schulweis Award JFR Dinner-December 11, 2000 374The Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall Remarks by Roman Kent-June 3, 2004 376Reflections: "The Century That Was, Was ..." 378Remarks by Roman Kent at the Bat Mitzvah of Emmalee Kent May 6, 2006 381