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Roman's Journey by Roman Halter with a preface by Sir Martin Gilbert

Memoir.
Published January 2007.
Hardback (210 x 148mm) .
£15.99. 352 pages.
ISBN: 978 1 84627 032 1

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'To lose everything but to retain one's sanity and, more staggeringly, one's love of life beggars the imagination. This is the book of a man who has achieved just that... I urge you to read it.' John Hurt

Roman Halter is an optimistic and boisterous schoolboy in 1939 when he and his family gather behind net curtains to watch the Volksdeutsch neighbours of their small town in western Poland greeting the arrival of Hitler's armies with kisses and swastika flags. Within days, the family home has been seized, 12 year-old Roman becomes a slave of the local SS chief, and, returning from an errand, silently witnesses his Jewish classmates being bayoneted by soldiers at the edge of town.

And there begins the remarkable six-year journey through some of the darkest caverns of Nazi Europe, and the loss of every other member of his family and almost all of the 800-strong community of his boyhood. Roman tells his indelible story with a simplicity and grace that allow the facts of his suffering and survival to speak for themselves.

Watch Roman Halter introduce his extraordinary memoir Roman's Journey. (Windows Media File, 5MB)