World War II Warriors (My Own Recollections of World War II)

World War II Warriors is the remarkable story of a young man who was separated from his family at sixteen and whose World War II odyssey took him from Poland to a Siberian labor camp to the battlefields of the eastern front. That journey brought him face to face with the horrors of the Holocaust as one of the first allied soldiers to enter a death camp, he witnessed firsthand Hitler s Final Solution, not yet realizing that almost his entire family had fallen victim to that awful fate. Bernhard Storch was born in Bochnia, Poland. Sent to flee the oncoming German invasion, he ended up in a Soviet labor camp. He subsequently enlisted in a Polish division that fought its way from the USSR through Poland to Berlin itself. Having survived more than two years of combat, he married, moved to the U.S., and built a life there. Retired, today he lives in Nyack, New York where he is active in veterans groups and Holocaust memorial organizations. He speaks frequently to student and community groups."