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The Touch of an Angel Kindle Edition
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.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherIndiana University Press
- Publication dateFebruary 2, 2021
- File size15396 KB
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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.
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- ASIN : B08DLRFQH9
- Publisher : Indiana University Press (February 2, 2021)
- Publication date : February 2, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 15396 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 401 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,742,926 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #356 in Jewish Biographies & Memoirs
- #1,342 in Jewish Biographies
- #2,572 in Jewish History (Kindle Store)
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