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Henry Orenstein, a Holocaust survivor who built a major American toy company, later persuaded Hasbro to start its line of Transformers action figures.

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I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds

June 3, 2017

A great story about from a Polish man who survives the Holocaust. I have read a few of these types of books and I love them all. The common element in all of them is the level of depravity that the human being will sink to in difficult times. He was in 4 major camps and through it all, he categorized people into 4 basic groups.
1. A small number were brutal by nature.
2. A fairly larger number were of low character. They would steal, beg, push themselves in front of others with total indifference to everyone else.
3. A third group were basically honest and wouldn't hurt anybody, but never went out of there way to help anybody either.
4. The last group was a small number of people that was always kind to others and trying to be helpful as far as they could, never taking advantage of other prisoners.

He said, "In the brutal atmosphere of concentration camps, there could be no pretense, no concealing one's true nature; it was there for anyone to see."

This description is consistent throughout all the books I ha

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Henry Orenstein

Polish-American toymaker, poker player, and entrepreneur (1923–2021)

For the Canadian artist, see Henry Orenstein (painter).

Henry Orenstein (born Henryk Orenstein; October 13, 1923 – December 14, 2021)^[3] was a Polish-born Jewish-American toymaker, professional poker player, entrepreneur and Holocaust survivor who resided in Verona, New Jersey.

A survivor of five Nazi concentration camps and death camps, he emigrated to the United States as a refugee after the war, and later held more than 100 patents, including for the Transformers toyline. He made his fortune as a toy designer and manufacturer, and was inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. His family includes his niece Lili Bosse, noted philanthropist and mayor of Beverly Hills, California.^[4]

Orenstein played poker professionally in the US. In 2008, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame because of his consistent record and winnings.^[5]

Early life

Henryk Orenstein was born in October 1923, in Hrubieszów, Poland, to a Jewish family.^[6&#

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I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds

"I Shall Live" tells the gripping true story of the Orensteins, a Jewish family living in Poland during the Second World War. When Henry Orenstein and his siblings end up in a series of concentrations camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking help him to save himself and his brothers from execution by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever pulled on the upper echelons of Nazi command, including Heinrich Himmler.

Orenstein's lucid prose recreates this horrific time in history and his constant struggle for survival as the Nazis move him and his brothers through five concentration camps. His description of their roles in the fake Chemical Commando sheds new light on an incredible and generally unknown event in the history of the Holocaust. This edition of "I Shall Live" contains new evidence about this fake Commando, including letters to and from Himmler himself.