William Samelson: 2 books

By William Samelson, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Korean War Vet. and Holocaust survivor. In this remarkable book, William Samelson points out in minute detail the sequence of events during and after the Second World War and the Holocaust. He penetrates into the hearts of individual lives, the...

In 1939, Samelson, now a professor at Trinity University (Tex.), was an 11-year old violin prodigy living in Poland. A year later, he had a secret bar mitzvah in a Nazi labor camp. His mother and sister had been sent to their deaths; he and his brother escaped and became members of a group of partisans....