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The Watchmakers
by Lenga, Harry, and Lenga, Scott
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0806541911
- ISBN 13
- 9780806541914
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About This Item
New York: Citadel Press; Kensington Publishing, 2022. xxv, 323 pages, 16 pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 22 cm. Subtitle on DJ: A Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Told through interviews with his son, watchmaker Harry Lenga's extraordinary memoir of endurance, faith, and a unique skill that kept three brothers together -- and alive -- during 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 imaginable -- with death always imminent -- fixing 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 next -- and a profoundly moving tribute to brotherhood, fatherhood, family, and faith." - Publisher. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Title
- The Watchmakers
- Author
- Lenga, Harry, and Lenga, Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0806541911
- ISBN 13
- 9780806541914
- Publisher
- Citadel Press; Kensington Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2022
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
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