Post messages of love and congratulations to Joe and Irene Rubinstein, married since September 27, 1947! Learn more about this remarkable couple who defied all odds: Auschwitz #34207 - The Joe Rubinstein Story. https://www.amazon.com/Auschwitz-34207-Joe-Rubinstein-Story
97 years ago today, in Radom, Poland a remarkable man was born...along with his identical twin Chaim, to a loving family that would soon total five children. At 21, Joe was taken from the Radom Ghetto by the Nazis in 1942 and sent to Auschwitz. Joe was the only member of all his family to survive the Holocaust. He lived to share his love of life, love of designing shoe, love people, and love of God. Everyone who knows Joe are awed by this beautiful man. To learn more about Joe's story, look for Auschwitz #34207 - The Joe Rubinstein Story. (Photo below: Joe, June 2017.)
Thank you readers for helping spread the story of this remarkable survivor, Joe Rubinstein who turns 97 tomorrow! #4 today on Amazon. (Rankings change hourly.)
Join Richard Rieman, narrator/producer of Auschwitz #34207 The Joe Rubinstein Story, for a free two-hour workshop on his award-winning book: The Author's Guide to Audiobook Creation. I won't be able to attend, but it will be a great opportunity to learn about audiobooks by one of the best in the industry. Additionally, Richard will read from Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story.
About Richard Rieman:
After a career of telling news stories into radio news microphones at the RKO Radio Network and Chicago, New York, and Washington DC radio stations, Denver's Richard Rieman started giving a voice to the words of some wonderful authors. In just four years, Richard has narrated and produced over 120 audiobooks. He has won five EVVY audiobook awards from CIPA, the Colorado Independent Publishers Assn. Richard used his reporting background to interview top audiobook narrators for his award-winning book, "The Author's Guide to Audiobook Creation."
Event date:
Sunday, September 17, 2017 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Bookbar
4280 Tennyson Street
Denver, CO 80212
303-284-0194
Amazon Hourly Best Seller List - Holocaust Biographies #6: Auschwitz #34207 - The Joe Rubinstein Story (Paperback May 1, 2017)
Irene Rubinstein, wife of holocaust survivor Joe Rubinstein, recently suffered a mild stroke. Please keep Irene, Joe and their family in your prayers. The prognosis for Irene is positive, but Joe is taking the illness of his beloved wife of 69 years very, very hard.
https://twitter.com/JackCanfield/status/794964500831211520
I just returned from a conference in LA, learning ways to secure corporate sponsorship for my upcoming inspirational speaking/media event tour for Auschwitz #34207 - The Joe Rubinstein Story. (For corporations wishing to partner with us in spreading Joe's message of hope and overcoming against all odds through sponsorships, please contact: www.nancygeise.com)
After the war, Joe became a world-class shoe designer in New York. Here's Joe, 9/16/2016, enjoying a "sweet" chocolate shoe from Gayles Chocolates. (Learn more-#1 Amazon Best seller: Auschwitz #34207 Joe Rubinstein Story)
Holocaust survivor, Joe Rubinstein, turns 96 on September 16, 2016! Send him a kind message. Joe was 21 when he was taken from his home in Radom, Poland. He would never again see anyone he knew or loved, including his identical twin. Yet he found the will to move forward with joy, becoming one of the leading shoe designers in the world. (Joe and Irene Rubinstein with author Nancy Sprowell Geise, August 2016, after Auschwitz #34207 - The Joe Rubinstein Story, won 4 gold medals in FAPA awards.) For fun, be sure and tell us where you live.
The 2016 Colorado Independent Publishers Association Awards just announced, 1st Place in AudioBooks - Auschwitz #34207 - The Joe Rubinstein Story, Richard Rieman, Narrator; Nancy Sprowell Geise, Author. Richard Rieman did a great job narrating and producing this remarkable story and it was even more special because we were able to record Joe Rubinstein himself reciting the opening chapter quotes! Share and listen to this award winning story...it is a worth your time.
Wow! Just Wow! What a tremendous evening last night was in Orlando Florida, at the Florida Authors and Publishers sponsored national President's Award Banquet! Auschwitz #34207 won Gold in the categories: Memoir; Biography; Education; Nonfiction Adult! To be in such great company of other finalists, award winners (not to mention the very fun and welcoming organization and board) was an experience and an honor I will never forget. Thanks to everyone for making this event one of the premier author and publishing events in the country.
“The 2016 award winners exemplify excellence in publishing both regionally and nationally. The awards continue to command the attention of industry professionals and readers!” said Terri Gerrell, FAPA President.
The winners were selected by sixty-five judges—librarians, educators, and publishing professionals. Geise's book, along with other award winners, will be on display at the BookExpo America 2017 in New York City on May 31–June 2, 2017.
We are so pleased to announce that the Audio Book for Auschwitz #34207, narrated/produced by Richard Rieman, has been named a finalist in the CIPA EVVY 2016 Awards! Thanks Richard and everyone who helped make this book possible...and most importantly, thanks to Joe Rubinstein for his courage and strength in showing us all how to live lives of hope, joy and love no matter what we face. The audio book is doubly special to us because we were able to record Joe Rubinstein himself saying the opening chapter quotes!
I spoke with holocaust survivor Joe Rubinstein this week. It was before the tragedy in Dallas. He said to me again, as he does every time we talk, "As long as we love life, and God, and each other, we can survive anything!" (This from a man who lost nearly everything a human being can lose, including everyone he knew and loved.) Imagine the world if everyone took Joe's message to heart!
(To learn more of Joe's story: Auschwitz #34207 - The Joe Rubinstein Story)
Joe (holocaust survivor) and Irene Rubinstein, loving life, God and each other for over 68 years!
"Each year the Florida Authors and Publishers Association (FAPA) sponsors the FAPA President’s Book Awards, which recognizes book publishing excellence and creativity in design, content, and production for North American authors and publishers." (FAPA Website)
Auschwitz #34207 - The Joe Rubinstein Story, has been selected as a finalist in four categories for the 2016 contest: Adult Nonfiction; Biography; Autobiography/Memoir; and Education. What a tremendous honor! The winners will be announced Aug. 6th in Orlando.
http://www.floridapublishersassociation.com/assets/documents/2016-docs/AnnualConference/16_fapa-awardwinners-final.pdf
A sad and tremendous loss for the world of a special man who gifted us all with priceless, gut wrenching, firsthand experiences of the holocaust. I am so grateful that Elie Wiesel, and other survivors like him, including my beloved friend Joe Rubinstein, found the strength and courage to share their stories with the world. We must never forget!
© Olivia Lauber
"My illustration represents Joe reliving what his father went through while dying from cancer. The shadows in the thought bubble show the family he has lost and also show that he thinks he will join them soon. I decided to draw this scene because of the emotional intensity. Joe realizes the pain his father must have been going through, which is a pain he wishes no one would experience. He must decide whether to fight the pain and survive for his family or to stop fighting and hopefully join his family. "I had to think about what I had seen, and breathed, and consumed, and I wondered if everything about this place had burrowed itself so deeply inside me that i had become like the cancer that killed my father, a cancer that had eaten away everything that was good" (Geise 127). This quote shows the pain and unhappiness Joe feels, much like his father did. The point of this illustration was to represent that emotional intensity within the passage and to show the decision Joe must make that will influence the rest of his life."
–Olivia Lauber
May 2016
Ames High School Student, (English Teacher: Trish Johnson)
Ames, Iowa
The above post was submitted by a reader after being inspired by the Joe Rubinstein’s story, Auschwitz #34207. Joe’s story is one of faith, hope and love…and never giving in to despair. Although he lost nearly everything a person can lose, Jose found a way to live (and continues to live) an extraordinary, joy-filled life. Joe’s journey continues to this day though people finding hope and inspiration by his example.
Please become a part of Joe’s Journey by sharing the ways his story has touched you, so you can inspire others to live a joy-filled life.
–Nancy Sprowell Geise
© Alyssa Romp
"Joe faced a lot of challenges and choices after being released from his final concentration camp. I decided to draw Joe facing all of his choices because choices mean a lot to me. I realized a long time ago that certain choices can change your future and can change who you are and where you end up. I think that making the right choice was such a big deal to Joe because he also knew that your choices now would lead you to your future. In my picture I included different colors which symbolized different emotions. I made Joe appear as gray to show his neutrality of which choice to choose. Joe didn’t know where each choice would take him, so he remained neutral to all the options. I made the happy words on the left in orange. I did this because orange symbolizes energy and happiness. I made the sad words on the right in black. I did this because black symbolizes mystery and evil. Overall, I think Joe was very wise to think through each choice and what they would provide for him before he followed through with one of them."
–Alyssa Romp
May 2016
Ames High School Student, (English Teacher: Trish Johnson)
Ames, Iowa
The above post was submitted by a reader after being inspired by the Joe Rubinstein’s story, Auschwitz #34207. Joe’s story is one of faith, hope and love…and never giving in to despair. Although he lost nearly everything a person can lose, Jose found a way to live (and continues to live) an extraordinary, joy-filled life. Joe’s journey continues to this day though people finding hope and inspiration by his example.
Please become a part of Joe’s Journey by sharing the ways his story has touched you, so you can inspire others to live a joy-filled life.
–Nancy Sprowell Geise
