The Touch of an Angel

Henryk Schönker, Scotia Gilroy

Description

The Touch of an Angel is the extraordinary story of a child's survival of the Holocaust. Henryk Schönker was born in 1931 into one of the most prominent and highly esteemed Jewish families of Oświęcim—the Polish town renamed Auschwitz during the German occupation. He and his family managed to flee Oświęcim 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 Oświęcim 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 Oświęcim 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. His story has been made into an award-winning documentary film in Polish and German, The Touch of an Angel, directed by Marek T. Pawłowski.

Acknowledgements
Polish Publisher's Note
Prologue
Oświęcim
Kraków
Wieliczka
Tarnów
Bochnia
Bergen-Belsen
Tröbitz
Epilogue
Appendix
Index

Sujets

• HISTORY
• Germán
• Nazismo
• Jews
• Nazism
• The Holocaust
• Auschwitz concentration camp
• German
• Nazisme
• Poland
• O?wi?cim
• Auschwitz
• Holocauste

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 02 février 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253050359
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

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CONTENTS

 Poîs Pubîse’s Noe îx  acknowedgmens xî

ôôûé 1

Ośęç 15

à 61

Wéçà 83

à 129

ôçà 199

éé-éŝé 217

 251

Réû ô Ośęç 299

 appendîx 379  ïndex o Nàmes 389  ïndex o Pàce Nàmes 395

 ïusàîons oow pàge 166.

POLISH PUBLISHER’S NOTE

In tHe PolïsH edïtïon, tHe ôŝ jéŝ ŝééŝ éçàé à çôéçô ô çàôçà éçôŝ ô é ôôçàûŝ.he ouc o àn angeŝ ôé ô é ôŝ  éôŝ ô é ŝééŝ, à éXàôà ôô à éŝ à ŝô ô éû- àçé—éŝô ô à é ô àŝŝ éà à ŝéàŝ ô é ŝûà ô ô ô ûà éôé û ô ûà ŝé. hé ôôçàûŝ ŝ é Śçé’ŝ à éà ô éXééçé, éé ôû é àŝ ô à ç à é é. é éàŝéŝ ŝ éô  ŝ éô, û éà à é éà ô éà ô’ àé û ŝ à çôé.  ŝ ŝô, ’ŝ éXàôà à ôéû ô é çà é éŝûçô, ô à éŝô’ŝ ŝûà çà ôéç ŝ ŝçà éXŝéçé, à ô éà é éŝéçé ô é ôéŝ çà û ôû ô é  ôé éé ôŝéŝ à  é éXŝéçé. é Śçé àŝ é éàŝ ô  1939;  éàç ô ô é ôô- çàûŝ à àŝŝé, ôéé, é éçàé à çéàŝ çôŝçôûŝ à àéé ôŝéé. hé éô ô àé 1939 ô éà 1940 ŝ ô éà ŝîçàçé  ŝ éô. Śçé’ŝ éŝçô ô ŝ éô ŝ’ àŝé ô ŝ éŝôà éXé- éçéŝ, àôû ŝ çôô éôéŝ àé çôîé ŝôé ô é àéŝ à àôŝééŝ. ’ŝ àŝé ô ôéŝ à ôà àççôûŝ  ŝ àé, éô Śçé, ô ŝé ô ôçà ô é ô ŝôé ô ç é, ŝé, à éé à çéé éŝŝ—à Ośęç ’ àé ô éçôé é ŝô ô é ôôçàûŝ à çôû àé éçôé à àçé éé jéŝ éé ŝàé  é ô à’ ŝô Fééçé à é é ô é à. é Śçé’ŝ éŝô àŝ é  ŝàé ôé à ŝX éàŝ àTé é ééŝ  éŝçéŝ: é à à ô é ôô àŝ çôéé  é Ā  2001, é ôôûé àŝ é  2005, à é îà çàé (“Réû ô Ośęç”) àŝ é  2013. ĀTé ô éôŝ ô é ôô éé ûŝé

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