Reading, remembering, resisting: Publisher Henry Rosenbloom launches Miracles Do Happen
Henry Rosenbloom founded the publishing house Scribe 40 years ago in Melbourne, and today publishes over 100 titles annually across the UK, the US and Australia. A son of Holocaust survivors, Henry was born in Paris in 1947, and he credits his parents' amazing and devastating history with inspiring him to pursue a life of publishing books with social impact, whether they deal with racial oppression in the US, the means by which dictators can be overthrown, or the lives of slum dwellers. He says: ‘My basic motivation in starting a publishing house was almost fiercely wanting to make readers pay attention to what was going on in the world around them. And in today’s world, I still feel like that.’
Miracles Do Happen is the story of Henry's parent, Felix and Fela Rozenblum, who were childhood sweethearts in Poland before WWII separated them — Fela was sent to Auschwitz, and Felix to a Soviet labour camp — and, incredibly, they managed to reunite and start a new life in Australia. It will be published in the UK in April 2018.
Scribe UK will celebrate the publication of Miracles Do Happen with Henry Rosenbloom at an event at the Wiener Library on Monday 9 April. All are welcome.