D-DAY PLUS SEVENTY YEARS

About the Book

As a refugee from Nazi Germany, Siegmund Spiegel came to the United States in 1938. Shortly before the United States declared war on Germany, he volunteered for the Army to help defeat his homeland which destroyed the lives of his family and so many others. He spent three years overseas, serving in the African, Sicilian and Normandy campaigns. This is Siegmund’s poignant, eye-witness account of the war, as experienced by a young immigrant determined to fight injustice. He describes events, both tragic and humorous, with such clarity and emotion that one cannot wait to read on. Follow Siegmund as he re-visits those same places years later and offers us his insightful retrospective of the seventy years following D-Day. Twenty years after first writing these memoirs, Siegmund, now in his 93rd year, offers us his prognosis for the future based on current events and history past.

About the Author

Born in Germany in 1919, Siegmund Spiegel is a Holocaust Survivor committed to ensuring that the Jews murdered by Hitler did not die in vain. As a refugee to the U.S. in 1938, he attempted, to no avail, to have his parents and relatives join him. Before war broke out, he volunteered to join the U.S. Army to defeat his homeland and spent 3 years overseas serving on European-African fronts. At war’s end, he studied Architecture, opening his own office in 1956. He practiced for over 30 years in 12 states, specializing in designs for hospitals and people with special needs. Now at age 93, Siegmund continues to lecture extensively on the perils of the Holocaust to schools, houses of worship, and organizations across the state of Florida, where he resides with his wife, Ruth, of 67 years. His two daughters live nearby.