The Forgotten Man: A Journey Through the Ashes traces the life of David Wdowinski, a psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, and witness to one of history’s darkest chapters. A Pulitzer Prize–nominated biography (2025), the book moves between public action and private reckoning, revealing a man shaped by resistance, loss, and moral burden.

Drawing on five decades of research, Dr. Stanley S. Seidner uncovers previously unpublished letters, diaries, and personal journals. These materials illuminate Wdowinski’s inner life, exposing the psychological toll of survival and the unresolved tensions behind his public legacy.

Neither hagiography nor indictment, The Forgotten Man is a meditation on identity, leadership, and memory. It asks not only how history is endured, but how it lives on within those who survived it.