Herman and his brother, Siggi, were born in Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. Therefore they will be forever grateful to the uncountable heroes who liberated them from its tyranny. However, their lives continued to be very traumatic because their parents were their worst enemies. And there was not one other person to guide, mentor or console them. Their father evicted them and their mother from their luxury home on Christmas Eve day. Thereafter, they had no income and had to squat in the attic of an apartment.

When Siggi and Herman were fifteen and seventeen years old, their mother sent them to their relatives in America, who promptly enslaved them on separate dairy farms. Under the threat of corporal punishment, one uncle would not allow Herman to bathe or shower for two years. Thereafter, another uncle forced him to live and work in extreme isolation by a vast tide flat for one long and lonely winter. Without even an outhouse but with highly unstable dynamite under his bed.

The boys eventually escaped, and with courage, tenacity and backbreaking labor, they worked themselves through college and became American citizens. And within fewer than two years after Herman and his new wife graduated from Washington State University, they had saved enough to be able to travel the world for six months on a very low budget. For the adventure of a lifetime. Some of these are included in "Heroes from the Attic: A Gripping True Story of Triumph."

Herman is a member of Toastmasters International and The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. He inspires to all kinds of audiences with his amazing life story and the blessings which he has received from his traumas. These blessings are compassion, joy, generosity, heightened creativity, survivor power and spiritual connection. He is also a volunteer chaplain who regularly visits patients in a regional and a psychiatric hospital. Please visit his Website, www.herobooks.com.

Heroes from the Attic: A Gripping True Story of Triumph

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