Courage Was My Only Option: The Autobiography of Roman Kent

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Author: Roman Kent

ISBN-10: 053315653X

ISBN-13: 9780533156535

Category: Businesspersons & Entrepreneurs - Biography

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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