Werner Weinberg was a professor of Hebraica at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion from 1961–1984.

Werner Weinberg’s story of his disrupted life as a Jewish teacher in small-town Germany, his deportation and amazing escape from his captors, and his critical reflections on his experience make this moving volume one of the most valuable personal accounts of the Holocaust"". - Michael Meyer, Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati