From Hitler to Trujillo

From Hitler to Trujillo by Alfredo F. Vorshirm is a memoir by a Holocaust survivor. The gripping story embodies the Jewish European experience during and after World War II and dramatizes the events that impelled Vorshirm to the Dominican Republic at the height of the Trujillo dictatorship. Living in a country other than the one of his birth when World War II broke out, Vorshirm found himself first imprisoned by the European Allies because he was an Austrian-German enemy and then imprisoned by the Germans when he was caught in a raid without legal identification papers and in possession of illegal foreign currency. After being held and tortured in a Gestapo jail for nearly a year, he joined the Italian partisans where he was wounded. Eventually, he served with a unit of the US 82nd Airborne Division and took part in the liberation of Europe. After the war, searching for a homeland, circumstances caused him to choose residence in the Dominican Republic. For years Vorshirm served the Dominican Republic as a Senior Army Officer in a top post with the Technological Services of the Armed Forces, as a Representative to the UN in New York and Geneva, and as a diplomat in Belgium, until he was abruptly removed and ordered back to the Dominican Republic. For an author bio and photo, reviews and a reading sample, visit bosonbooks.com.