When I look back into our history, I wonder how we survived at all.  I am grateful to be the beneficiary of my mother’s and father’s life values and thankful that I had a chance to live them out. Gratitude can make the seemingly impossible possible.  I hope readers will come away with the message of the book - that it is not the anguish, but rather the joy of human triumph that gives meaning to our lives. This book honors those of the greatest generation, ethnic Americans WWII mothers and fathers who, like my own, left behind the terror and devastation of the Second World War and brought their children to America, where we have been tremendously grateful for the safe haven this country provides, a safe haven where we left behind a tortured world so that our children, our grandchildren can comfortably live in peace, a brave heart, and look to the future, to have a future.

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...GENE FISCH — AUTHOR BIO

Eugene “Gene” Fisch is a Polish‑born American whose life reflects one of the great immigrant odysseys of the twentieth century. Born during World War II in a muddy field as his family fled across occupied Eastern Europe, he arrived in the United States as a child refugee carrying the old‑world values of discipline, integrity, and sacrifice — values that would shape every chapter of his American life.

As a Displaced Person who rose from refugee hardship to the pinnacle of collegiate athletics, Gene earned a scholarship to New York University’s nationally acclaimed basketball program. He graduated with distinction from NYU, completing both his B.S. in Economics and M.B.A. while excelling on the court. He became a record‑setting scorer on the 1961 NYU freshman team and later the starting point guard on a nationally ranked varsity squad (1962–1965). His achievements earned him induction into the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame (2011), and in 2018 the Syracuse Post‑Standard named him one of the Top 10 Greatest High School Basketball Players in Central New York history.

Gene is the author of two books:

• All Love Comes Home: A Promise of Truth — his mother’s historic memoir — is a sweeping account of leadership, resilience, and survival under Soviet occupation in Eastern Poland during the 1939–1941 alliance between Russia and Nazi Germany. (Currently being edited for republication)

• To Have a Tomorrow: A True Story chronicles his family’s survival through five wartime occupations, their emigration to America as Displaced Persons, and Gene’s own journey from refugee child to scholar‑athlete competing on the storied court of Madison Square Garden.

He is currently completing his third book, A Grave Miscarriage of Justice: Eighteen Years Beneath the Scales of Justice, a memoir documenting his eighteen‑year struggle for truth and recognition following a diplomatic‑residence assault and the institutional failures that followed.

Gene’s professional career spans academia, public service, corporate leadership, and entrepreneurial innovation. He served as a lead lecturer in management and business policy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, New York University, Louisiana State University, and the University of New Orleans, where he became known for his clarity, rigor, and ability to translate complex managerial systems into strategic business policies.

In the public sector, Gene became the first Director of Consumer Affairs for the City of Syracuse and later served in an advisory capacity during the presidential campaign of Richard Nixon, contributing to policy discussions on economic and consumer issues.

His corporate career includes senior executive roles at three Fortune 500 companies. At age thirty‑four, he became the youngest senior executive in the metals industry at Conalco / Alusuisse / Phelps Dodge, serving as Senior Vice President for Marketing, Group Vice President, and Co‑COO. He also held leadership positions at American Can Company (Director of Planning and Control at age thirty‑one) and Oneida Ltd. (Director of European Marketing at age twenty‑eight).

As an entrepreneur, Gene became CEO and Chairman of twenty‑six companies, building ventures across media, technology, and international commerce. In 1996, he pioneered one of the earliest telemedicine management systems in the United States, designing an integrated, point‑of‑care clinical platform for federal, state, and local correctional systems. In partnership with Hughes Corporation’s satellite and fiber‑optic technologies, he created a real‑time digital network capable of transmitting voice, video, text, and medical data — a visionary precursor to modern telehealth.

Today, Gene brings the full force of his lived experience — as a refugee, athlete, executive, innovator, author, and survivor — to his forthcoming memoir, a sweeping account of resilience, institutional betrayal, and the unbreakable pursuit of truth.

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​​I pioneered in 1996, a forward visionary telemedicine management system of care at the point of care primarily serving federal, state, and local prison systems. I designed, developed, and electronically consolidated integrated hospital functions, healthcare delivery services, clinical management at the point of care. Joint ventured with Hughes Corporation's state of the art satellite/ground based digitized fiber optic dedicated network systems, communications technology applications enabling voice, video, text, audio be transmitted in real time at point of care.