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Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for 2025 Amazon Best Seller, and The Book Revue five Star Rating, The Forgotten Man: A Journey Through the Ashes is a powerful epic that chronicles the adventurous life of David Wdowinski, a tragic and brilliant psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, and Revisionist leader during the epoch of the Warsaw Ghetto Rebellion. Dr. Stanley S. Seidner uses fifty years of painstaking research to weave a gripping tale from unpublished documents- including family letters, diaries, and previously unknown evidence- creating a spellbinding narrative that takes readers from the times of murderous pogroms and nationalist anti-Semitism through the Holocaust. Vividly evoking Wdowinski and his turbulent times, The Forgotten Man is a riveting historical psychological portrait of a man many considered to be a paragon of strength and virtue. Arguably the controversial apotheosis of heroic leadership in the Warsaw Ghetto, Wdowinski gave critical testimony at the Eichmann trial and helped to establish a Jewish State. Unknown to the world, Wdowinski's private journals reveal a fixation on the demons that visited him both mentally and physically. A devastating and unflinching narrative, The Forgotten Man transcends Wdowinski's public persona to masterly reveal a story of devastating loss and its consequences upon personal identity.

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A University Dean and professor emeritus, therapist and award-winning scholar, Dr. Stanley S. Seidner has earned doctorates, diplomates and post-doctorates in East European and military history, psychology, statistics, theology, and linguistics. He is a fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners in multiple areas. From a refugee family that included his close relative and early mentor Dr. Wdowinski, ninety-five percent of Dr. Seidner's lineage perished in the Holocaust. With the publication of this book, Dr. Seidner fulfills a promise to Dr. Wdowinski. In addition to books and academic articles, he recently received an invitation from Professor Barbara Engelking who directs the Center for Holocaust Studies in Poland for a study in the forthcoming edition of prestigious international Holocaust Journal, Zaglada Żydów. Studia i Materialy. A certified document examiner, he has been consulted on historical documentation here and abroad.

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