Wracked by hunger, 14-year-old Henry Friedman
evaded the Nazis in a barn loft as small as a queensize
bed. His diet of scraps—soup, bread, an occasional
piece of meat—was eventually reduced to a single slice
of bread. For 18 months, the Jewish boy found solace
in prayer.
Christian farmers gambled with their lives to hide
Henry, his mother, his brother and a teacher. By
liberation in 1944, only 88 of 10,000 Jews from his
hometown of Brody, Poland, had survived.