Pasco woman tells her family’s Holocaust story

The story of one family’s survival of the Holocaust is told in Long Shall You Live by first-time Pasco author Marja Henderson.

Book signings are planned at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Pasco during the coffee hour following masses this weekend. Masses are at 5 p.m. Saturday and 7:30, 9 and 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Books may be purchased for $26, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting St. Patrick’s Guatemala Mission and the Parish Altar Society. They also are available at www.longshallyoulive.com.

Henderson’s father was a Dutch resistance fighter who was captured as he was getting ready to blow up the shipyards in Rotterdam to prevent the Nazis from using them.

He survived almost five years at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany and then waited 11 years to be allowed to immigrate to America with his wife and daughters, including Henderson.

Henderson’s book tells the stories she pieced together from her parents’ lives and her father’s legacy for his children.

This story was originally published September 14, 2017 at 6:42 PM with the headline "Pasco woman tells her family’s Holocaust story."