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Greif, Earl

 
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Synopsis

This is the story of Earl Greif, born Yisrael Greif, who grew up on a small farm in Galicia, a region of Poland, where his family was caught in the tentacles of the Nazi invasion and trapped in a ghetto. Earl and his little brother Lou hid in an oven to escape the massacre that wiped out all of his family and subsequently eluded capture by subsisting for months in a dense forest, passed as Gentiles and eventually joined a Russian army hospital. They made their way to the United States, where Earl became an ultra successful real estate developer and co-founded a Holocaust memorial.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This is the story of Earl Greif, born Yisrael Greif, who grew up on a small farm in Galicia, a region of Poland, where his family was caught in the tentacles of the Nazi invasion and trapped in a ghetto. Earl and his little brother Lou hid in an oven to escape the massacre that wiped out all of his family and subsequently eluded capture by subsisting for months in a dense forest, passed as Gentiles and eventually joined a Russian army hospital. They made their way to the United States, where Earl became an ultra successful real estate developer and co-founded a Holocaust memorial.

Biographie de l'auteur

As a Holocaust survivor, Earl Greif was able to come to the ?land of dreams,? America ? what a frightening, exciting and wonderful experience that turned out to be, transformed from a peasant boy in Poland who escaped the Nazi slaughter to successful real estate developer in southern California. He put aside the nightmare of the past and the world of evil to discover so many beautiful people for whom he has eternal gratitude.

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