No Mat­ter How Far is a haunt­ing, ulti­mate­ly redemp­tive sto­ry inspired by my par­ents’ sur­vival of the Holo­caust. Avram Gryn­berg sur­vived them all; Nazi occu­pa­tion, the mis­ery of ghet­to life, Auschwitz, hard labor in Nazi coal mines, and a bru­tal death march. When lib­er­a­tion final­ly came, he went home to Lodz, Poland, to wait for oth­ers in his fam­i­ly to return. None came back. 

After five months of mourn­ing, a chance encounter with a woman sur­vivor on the streets of post-war Lodz led Avram on a six-hun­dred-mile jour­ney to Zeil­sheim, a dis­placed per­sons camp out­side Frank­furt, Ger­many, where he believed he would be reunit­ed with his wife. Along the way, he had to deal with rigid Russ­ian diplo­mats, thieves, thugs, and con­tin­ued anti­semitism, but noth­ing was going to stop him from his quest.

In No Mat­ter How Far, you will feel what it was like to walk in my late father’s shoes dur­ing his ardu­ous jour­ney from hell on earth to redemption.