The watchmakers
Book - 2022
Drawing from more than ten years of interviews with watchmaker Harry Lenga, this dramatic first-person account details his inspiring life before, during, and after WWII, as he and his brothers endured, bartered, worked, prayed, and lived to see liberation.
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- Genres
- Biographies
Personal narratives - Published
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New York, NY :
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- "A story of brotherhood, survival, and hope amid the Holocaust"--Jacket.
- Physical Description
- xxv, 323 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-304) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780806541914
- Co-author's Note
- Note on Transliteration
- 1. Childhood in the Chassidic Town of Kozhnitz (1919-30)
- 2. Teen Years and Watchmaking (1931-38)
- 3. Coming of Age in Warsaw (October 1938-September 1939)
- 4. German Occupation and the Warsaw Ghetto (October 1939-May 1941)
- 5. Kozhnitz Ghetto (June 1941-September 1942)
- 6. Gorczycki Camp at Wolka (October 1942)
- 7. Wolanow Slave Labor Camp (October 1942-June 1943)
- 8. Starachowice Slave Labor Camp (June 1943-July 1944)
- 9. Auschwitz (July 1944-January 1945)
- 10. Death March, Mauthausen, and Melk (Late January 1945-April 1945)
- 11. Ebensee and Liberation (April 1945-October 1945)
- 12. Postwar Europe (October 1945-March 1949)
- Afterword
- Appendix A. My Search for Chassidic Context
- Appendix B. The Tale of Laizer Yitzkhak Wildenberg
- Appendix C. Conflicts Among the Kozhnitzer Rebbes and Their Followers
- Appendix D. Jewish Religious and Political Groups in Prewar Kozhnitz
- Appendix E. Testimony of Robert Persinger, the US Army Tank Commander Who Liberated Ebensee
- Glossary
- Sources
- Endnotes
- Photo Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Autors