About Herman Rosenblat
Herman Rosenblat was born in Poland in 1929. After the Nazi invasion in 1939, he and his family were confined first to Wolborz ghetto, where his father died of typhus, and later to Piotrkow. When Herman was thirteen, the Nazis deported his mother for gassing in Treblinka. Later, Herman and his three older brothers were sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, and later, to its slave-labor sub-camp, Schlieben. In 1945, when the allied forces liberated Herman and his brothers from Theresienstadt, they were transported to England to build a life before emigrating to New York. It was in New York that Herman met his wife of fifty years, Roma, in 1957. He discovered that during the war, Roma had lived not too far from the camp at Schlieben, where she and her family were trying to survive by passing themselves off as Christians. Herman and Roma Rosenblat have two grown children and live in North Miami Beach, Florida.
