I had the pleasance of meeting Dr. Darakhovskiy in the gift store at the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, District of Columbia where he was sign language transcripts of his book. I spoke to him for a few proceedings and felt that he was a warm and personable man. Helium had a friendly and amiable demeanor.

I thought his book would be a life of his life under Nazi German, then Communist Soviet Union and finally the United States. But it was more than of a societal commentary on life under those three empires.

It would look logical that person exposed to subjugation under the Nazis and Communism would be acrimonious and jaded. That is not the lawsuit with Dr. Darakhovskiy. He gives an even-handed and mostly fair glance into the political and societal environments under the wicked empires. One can forgive Dr. Darakhovskiy when he be givens to step up onto his soap box, since even then he demoes great restraint and professionalism when discussing the events that took the lives of his mother, sister and many other household members during the Holocaust. These awful events would seek anyone's ability to persevere and move forward.

He paints a blunt and interesting position of Americans when he covers his in-migration to this country. He received a great cultural daze when realizing an American's obsession with wealthiness and how it clearly defined one social class of people from another. Coming from a state where wages were determined by a authorities scale of measurement to a state of free enterprise, Dr. Darakhovskiy establish the disparity of the statistical distribution of wealthiness to be almost incomprehensible.

Even this did not overcast Dr. Darakhovskiy's positions of the United States. He speaks for many pages on the fantastic Americans he met after settling in Rochester, New York who helped him set to a civilization and a state that were vastly different from anything he had seen before and beyond his wildest imagination.

He wrote about the defeat and barriers to getting employed and the typical responses from possible employers he dubbed as "masterpieces of bureaucratic writing." But many people can certify that these comments are not reserved for immigrants. We've all heard these same statements.

The lone fault I establish with the book was the editing. Dr. Darakhovskiy should see another publishing house for his adjacent work. I have got never read a book with so many spelling and grammatical errors. I understand that the editor may have got got wanted to maintain Dr. Darakhovskiy's ain words pure, but as he doesn't have a house appreciation on the American language, grammar and proper word use are more than of import to the reader than verbatim. Some sentences just did not do sense, and this is where an editor can give us at least an thought of Dr. Darakhovskiy's message.

I'm glad to have got met Dr. Darakhovskiy and read his book. It is a pleasance to read and if you're not careful, you might larn something. It is a must-read for people or anyone interested in the Holocaust or Eastern Europe and Russia.