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Since Otto Wood was seven years old, he had been in trouble with the law, and was notorious for his escapes from the law. He wrote his life history while serving a thirty-year sentence for killing a man in 1923. His hopes were that the book would help a lost soul from going down the same road as he. While, he did not take his own advice, for the last time, he again escaped prison and was killed in a shootout with the Law on December 31, 1930.

On August 31, 1939, Raymond Fishler went to sleep at about midnight dreaming of the wonderful future he envisioned for himself. Less than five hours later he was awakened from his peaceful slumber by the start of World War II. After living through a brutal German occupation, his family made a futile attempt to go into hiding to avoid mass liquidation or being transported to the living hell of a concentration camp. Raymond’s mother made him promise to go to America and tell the world what was done to them. He promised he would, and to this day Raymond has told the story of his life’s journey in classrooms and lecture halls and also on the March of the Living, an annual education program ...