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The Touch of an Angel Kindle Edition

by Henryk Schönker (Author), Scotia Gilroy (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition
4.8 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
The extraordinary story of a child’s survival of the Holocaust and the basis for the award-winning documentary directed by Marek T. Pawlowski.

Henryk Schönker was born in 1931 into one of the most prominent and highly esteemed Jewish families of Oswiecim—the Polish town renamed Auschwitz during the German occupation. He and his family managed to flee Oswiecim shortly before the creation of the Auschwitz death camp, and survived the war through sheer luck and a strong will to survive. The Schönker family’s return to Oswiecim in 1945 provides a fascinating glimpse of challenges faced by Jewish people who chose to remain in Poland after the war and attempted to rebuild their lives there. Schönker’s testimony also reveals an astonishing fact: the town of Oswiecim could have become the departure point for a mass emigration of Jewish people instead of the place of their annihilation. Documents included with the narrative provide support for this claim. Although he was only a child at the time, Henryk Schönker’s life experience was the Holocaust. Even so, death and the threat of death are not the focus of this memoir. Instead, Schönker, with a touching personal style, chooses to focus on how life can defy destruction, how spirituality can protect physical existence, and how real the presence of higher powers can be if one never loses faith.
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  1. Part of series
    Jewish Lives in Poland
  2. Print length
    401 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Indiana University Press
  5. Publication date
    February 2, 2021
  6. File size
    16.5 MB
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About the Author

Henryk Schönker (1931–2019) was a mechanical engineer in Poland and Austria. He worked in the aeronautical industry after immigrating to Israel in 1961. In his later years, he became a painter and writer.

Scotia Gilroy is a literary translator.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08DLRFQH9
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indiana University Press (February 2, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 2, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 16.5 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 401 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

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Scotia Gilroy

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Scotia Gilroy is a translator of Polish literature into English and a writer of prose and poetry. She holds a First Class Honours BA in English literature from Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), and is a graduate of the National Centre for Writing’s Emerging Translator Mentorship (Norwich, England). She was shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize in 2022.

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    5.0 out of 5 stars A real page turner.
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    I am glad that Henryk Schonker shared his life story with the world.
    I did not know how hard life in Poland was after Communism took over.
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