From Hell to Heaven
A true story of survival, serendipity, and success
by D. Merrill Laux
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About the Book
Born into a German family with a Jewish heritage, Werner Meudt spent the first 22 years of his life escaping. As a child, escaping the wrath of the Nazis against the Jews, even as a uniformed member of the Hitler Youth movement ... as a young boy, escaping injury and death during the saturation bombings of his native Koblenz ... at age 10, having lost several relatives to the Nazi death camps, escaping deportation himself by a last-minute ride to a forested valley in Thuringia ... as a teen, escaping the oncoming Russian army in Thuringia, only to return to the rubble of his bombed-out home on the Rhine ... then fighting poverty and starvation in the runaway inflation years of the late 1940s ... before finally escaping to America for a chance at a better life.
He arrived in New York City penniless, knowing not a word of English, with no home and no job prospects. But a chance encounter aboard a subway train altered his life completely. FROM HELL TO HEAVEN is the true story of how one man persevered despite overwhelming odds to become a successful biochemical researcher, professor an internationally renowned fencing official and the patriarch of a model American family.
He arrived in New York City penniless, knowing not a word of English, with no home and no job prospects. But a chance encounter aboard a subway train altered his life completely. FROM HELL TO HEAVEN is the true story of how one man persevered despite overwhelming odds to become a successful biochemical researcher, professor an internationally renowned fencing official and the patriarch of a model American family.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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Project Option: 6×9 in, 15×23 cm
# of Pages: 166 -
Isbn
- Softcover: 9781389834783
- Publish Date: Jul 16, 2017
- Language English
- Keywords World War II, Nazi, escape, Jewish, immigrant
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