My Journey Home

About the Book

A remarkable and compelling story about a Jewish boy´s coming of age during World War II, his survival, and ultimately, the transformation of his life as an American. Joseph Garay´s life story is an object lesson about perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- from the loss of his entire family in the concentration camps, to his survival in the Jewish Underground in Bratislava and elsewhere; from his joining the partisan underground and his enlistment in the Czechoslovakian division of the Romanian Red Army to fight the Nazis, to his meeting and marrying his wife. It is also a lesson about the remarkable acts of a single individual, Joseph Paserin, who protected Garay during those tumultuous war years despite grave risk to his own and his family´s safety. The actions of Paserin ultimately enabled Garay to start anew in New York City -- to build a new family and to enjoy the safety and security of American freedom.

About the Author

Joseph Garay has lived and worked in New York City since migrating to the United States in 1946. He is a businessman, husband, father, and grandfather. He has worked tirelessly in his effort to preserve the memory of his family who died in the Holocaust, as well as to honor his friend Joseph Paserin, without whose love, courage, and protection he would have also perished.