Mark KoperweisMark Koperweis was born in 1957, just twelve years after Henry, the protagonist in Every Last Jew, was liberated from the Dachau concentration camp. The second of Henry's three children, he grew up in the small town of East Rockaway, New York, on theSouth Shore of Long Island. In this Irish/Italian working-class neighborhood he and his group of Jewish friends were a small minority. He always felt proud of his Jewish heritage and especially of his father being a Holocaust survivor. He knew at an early age that one day he would tell his father's story to the world. Shortly after moving to California in 1984 he started working in the drapery and window coverings industry where he found that working with textiles came naturally to him after he had spent many summers as a teenager working in his father's garment factory. He currently lives in Oakland, California, where he is sole proprietor of a successful window coverings Installation business called draperyGuru(R). He is the proud father of four children. Mark enjoys playing acoustic drums and electronic percussion in his current band Turn Around Sound and has many times travelled to India where he studied traditional drumming on the tabla of Northern India and the khol of West Bengal. He also plays the bongos and cajon percussion instruments from Latin America as well as the djembe and dumbek from Africa and the Middle East. His lifelong interest in the religions and philosophies of the Orient led him to study the I-Ching, the Bhagavad Gita, Shrimad Bhagavatam, the Ramayana, and many other literatures that form the basis of Hindu and Buddhist teachings. After his first trip to India in 1977 he decided to teach himself how to read, write, and speak Hindi. In more recent years his studies have focused on both modern and ancient Jewish history. Recently Mark became the executive director and co-founder, along with his two siblings, of The Henry Koperweis Foundation for Holocaust Education, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to promoting an awareness of the atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Jews of Europe as told through Henry's personal experience. In the early 1990's he sat down with his father Henry to record his personal testimony of growing up in Radom, Poland during the time that Adolf Hitler came to power and invaded his country. Henry explained how he and his family were forcibly torn from their home and moved to a ghetto, then systematically forced to work in various labor camps, and eventually were separated and deported to death camps. Over the years Mark has transcribed over six hours of videotape to compile this current true-to-life publication of his father's remarkable tale of survival. Read More Read Less