Romek's Lost Youth - The Story of a Boy Survivor

I read the article and was shocked. It was an online NBC news article entitled "Survey finds shocking lack of Holocaust knowledge among Millennials and Generation Z."   It was the first nation-wide survey in the U.S. to be held on the subject of the Holocaust. Of those surveyed, 63% were unable to accurately answer the most basic questions - and half could not even name one concentration camp.   This is truly disturbing that in the space of 77 years, Americans have forgotten what was the most heinous calamity of the 20th century - the Holocaust.   While most average Americans have forgotten about the Holocaust, there is one thing for certain - the  Holocaust-Deniers have Not forgotten (but the latter are determined to spread falsehoods about something they know nothing about - or worse, they do know the truth but are motivated by malintent and subterfuge.) The danger lies when these two mentalities merge: if educational institutions do not take more respons...

Batory Publishing has released a very special manuscript which was written decades ago, but only now is in the process of being published. It is a story that must be told and cannot be lost in the obscurity of time. "Romek's Lost Youth - The Story of a Boy Survivor" was narrated by the late Ken Roman, and written by his close friend and collaborator, the late John James.  Sadly, Ken Roman passed away in 2016, preceded by John James many years earlier. This is a personal memoir of Ken's horrific experiences in the Nazi-German concentration camps during World War Two. Romek was only 13 years old when the Nazi Germans invaded Poland.  He was torn away from his family and imprisoned in work camps and concentration camps, enduring years of deprivation, starvation, torture, slavery, and constant terror. When Flossenburg camp was liberated by the Americans near the end of the war, Romek was finally freed. The nightmare was over, but a new one emerged - he learned of the ...