NEVER THE LAST JOURNEY
In a cramped, insect-infested pit beneath a Polish farmer's bedroom floorboards, Jewish teenager Felix Zandman?jammed together with two men and two women?hid from the Nazis for a year and a half. He emerged from this living grave at the age of 17, in 1944, to discover that his parents and sister had been found by the Gestapo in a different hiding place and been deported to death camps. In this moving autobiography, Zandman, a scientist, inventor and CEO of Vishay Intertechnology, a Fortune500 electronics firm based in Philadelphia, describes his odyssey from France, where he arrived in 1946 as an engineering student, to the U.S., where he worked on early nuclear submarines, designed a top-secret Israeli tank and invented an ultraprecise resistor that enabled him to launch Vishay in 1962. Beset by nightmares engendered by his Holocaust ordeal, Zandman laid to rest his internal fury with the help of his second wife, Ruta, whom he met in Israel in 1977, and by testifying in Germany at the trial of the Gestapo butchers who had liquidated his Polish hometown's Jewish ghetto. This is an inspiring, heartbreaking document. Photos not seen by PW.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.