Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen Jr. (August 11, 1912 – January 8, 2005) was the author of Passages to Freedom, about his escape from a prison camp in Italy during World War II.
[1] In 1916, he was painted as a young boy, with his mother in a full-length portrait by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury, which was later donated to the Newark Museum in New Jersey.
During World War II, he served as an artillery captain in the First Infantry Division in North Africa.
He and another American POW, Richard M. Rossbach, escaped on September 23, 1943, by crawling through the camp's wire fences.
[3] After the war, Frelinghuysen worked in insurance and later managed the family dairy business in Somerville, New Jersey.