The Watchmakers (eBook)

A Powerful WW2 Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust

Harry Lenga, Scott Lenga (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
240 Seiten
Citadel Press (Verlag)
978-0-8065-4193-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Told through interviews with his son, Jewish watchmaker Harry Lenga's extraordinary memoir of endurance, faith, and a unique skill that kept three brothers togetherand aliveduring the darkest times of World War II. Harry Lenga was born to a family of Chassidic Jews in Kozhnitz, Poland. The proud sons of a watchmaker, Harry and his two brothers, Mailekh and Moishe, studied their father's trade at a young age. Upon the German invasion of Poland, when the Lenga family was upended, Harry and his brothers never anticipated that the tools acquired from their father would be the key to their survival. Under the most devastating conditions imaginablewith death always imminentfixing watches for the Germans in the ghettos and brutal slave labor camps of occupied Poland and Austria bought their lives over and over again. From Wolanow and Starachowice to Auschwitz and Ebensee, Harry, Mailekh, and Moishe endured, bartered, worked, prayed, and lived to see liberation. Derived from more than a decade of interviews with Harry Lenga, conducted by his own son Scott and others, The Watchmakers is Harry's heartening and unflinchingly honest first-person account of his childhood, the lessons learned from his own father, his harrowing tribulations, and his inspiring life before, during, and after the war. It is a singular and vital story, told from one generation to the nextand a profoundly moving tribute to brotherhood, fatherhood, family, and faith.2022 National Jewish Book Award Finalist';A Holocaust memoir that is so well told that you feel like you are sitting in the room with Harry Lenga, listening to him as he relates the meaningful episodes of his life...Even if you have read other Holocaust memoirs before, reading this one will be well worth your time. Harry's positivity, optimism andseichelare truly inspiring.'San Diego Jewish World';Deeply moving.' Jesse Kellerman, bestselling author';Vivid and compelling.' Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author ofOrdinary Men';A truly extraordinary book.' Damien Lewis, #1 international bestselling author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.6.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Schlagworte: 999 • Adolf Hitler • allied liberation • anne frank book • Art Spiegelman • Auschwitz • austria • biographies of famous people • bob persinger • Brotherhood • chassidic jews • Christopher Browning • coming of age memoirs • concentration camps • d-day liberators • Death march • Ebensee • fathers and sons • gas chambers • generational true stories • Germany • Gestapo • gifts for history buffs • gorczicki • hitler’s war criminals • holocaust books • holocaust memoirs • horology • Immigrant Experience • Israel • Italy • jewelry stores • Judaism • kozhnitz • kozhnitzer rebbes • kozienice • mass executions • Maus • Mauthausen • Melk • military history • Modena • nazi collaberators • Nazi Collaborators • Nazi Germany • nazi occupied europe • nonfiction holocaust books • ordinary men • Poland • Post-war Europe • pow camps • pow stories • refugee camps • sas war crimes • slave labor • slave labor camps • SS • starachovice • Starvation • St. Louis • Stuttgart • survival in auschwitz • third american army • Treblinka • typhoid fever • untold ww2 stories • Warsaw Ghetto • watchmaking • wolanow • wolka • World History • World War 2 • world war 2 books • World War II • ww2 • ww2 spy and espionage books non fiction • WWII • wwii books • wwii history • wwii tank books
• ISBN-10: 0-8065-4193-8 / 0806541938
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-4193-8 / 9780806541938