You have chronicled the most compelling saga of your father's nightmare struggle during the bleak, black period of World War II and the horror of the Holocaust. While reviewing your work, I was reminded of an ancient Indian proverb: Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. Those of us who have survived the Holocaust have walked those two moons and we are the last to judge.

--The Late US Congressman Tom Lantos

This gem of a memoir describes the epic ordeal of Aaron Herskowitz, a young Czechoslovakian who, caught up in the treacherously deadly currents of World War II, somehow survived and, with his son's able assistance as the author of this magnificent work, this book stands as a monument...how this one remarkable man succeeded by luck, courage and ingenious imagination, in surviving and triumphing over the horrific ordeals inflicted upon him by others. Social history at its best, this is a must read.

I have now read your book with much interest. Your father was a remarkable man and the story is very well told.

As Aaron discloses in the beginning of the book: "I am...beloved son, father, brother, husband; ...patriotic son of Czechoslovakia, soldier, lover of God; slave laborer, hater of God, Russian partisan, persecutor, killer, survivor." He shares his story honestly, without apology and with no effort to smooth over the jagged edges of the experience. The memoir is often raw and disturbing, true to the times and personalities it depicts...

The book is well-written and often gripping and provides a perspective rarely found in Holocaust memoirs. It is recommended for mature readers who have the perspective and background to engage the material and the ethical issues it raises.

Just when we think we have read everything that can be said about that war tragedy, along comes a book like Aaron's Journey...Aaron Herskowitz will surprise you, perhaps shock you...Aaron's Journey is a rough book to read, and was meant to be so. It offers no excuses, makes no apologies and seeks no moral high ground. It simply asks the question, "What would you have done?"

This book is a powerful story and one that was hard to imagine. This book was one that gripped me throughout the reading of the book. You can feel Aaron's struggle through the story as he figures out what Hitler has planned and he attempts, unsuccessfully to get people to fight back. The story is an amazing one and you feel for Aaron and the people around him. It was amazing to me how cruel some people in the story were and I was amazed at how much cruelty one person could endure. Just when you think you understand the story, it changes. You find out that Aaron and another Jew become bounty hunters for the Russians and Aaron even reflects that though they were successful, that they began to lose their own humanity. 

This story was so compelling, and you are simply drawn in to then draw judgment on Aaron.

This incredibly fast paced, action-packed and suspense-filled wartime thriller is the remarkable true story of a young Jewish man who survived years of terror under Nazi rule and enslavement by their fiendish Hungarian allies to eventually escape and fight for the Russians, who appoint him as overlord of an enemy town...thus achieving the ultimate reversal of fortune...Aaron's Journey also divulges the astounding and shocking secrets revealing why six million Jews did not have to perish, and why there was virtually no armed Jewish resistance - secrets rarely spoken aloud until now, in this book.

We have many book readers, however, the editor wanted to personally read your book... he was compelled by the story... thank you for
your great work and sharing your father's story.