The Road to Here is a combination of Andrew Jampoler’s personal memories and history of the past eight decades all recounted in his usual illustrated book talk format. The point of departure is a quick scamper through German interwar history and the attack on Poland. Jampoler was born in German-occupied Eastern Poland on 15 January 1942, just five days before “the final solution” of the Jewish question was presented to Hitler. He spent the war years in Lublin, cared for by a couple who found him abandoned on the steps of a church in Warsaw where his desperate mother had left him. Improbably, Jampoler, his mother and paternal grandmother, survived the war, the only family members along with a young cousin to survive. All other family members died in the Holocaust. The three family members arrived in NYC at the end of July 1946 as quota immigrants. Since then, his biography has mirrored American history. Twenty-four years in the navy (one in Vietnam) flying. A dozen years or so in industry, and another twenty or so writing books… eight have been published. Such is the gift of citizenship that his family moved in a generation from the west side piers of NYC to the House of Representatives, where his daughter sits as a Member.

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