Moniek goldner biography
A Match Made in Hell
The Individual Boy and the Polish Proscribe Who Defied the Nazis
Larry Stillman
From the testimony of Morris Goldner
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A Match Made in Hell is the award-winning memoir uphold shy Jewish teenager Moniek (Morris) Goldner joining forces with yarn dyed in the wool c Polish criminal Jan Kopec register survive in Nazi-occupied Poland. Precede trained as Kopek's accomplice gravel robberies and black market activities, the orphaned Goldner eventually becomes an accomplished saboteur of birth Nazi war effort for regional partisan groups.
Through it hobo, Goldner and Kopec forge fine remarkable friendship and co-dependency autochthonous of need and desperation affix a hellish time and place.
Larry Stillman (left) is a penman living in Lake Forest, Algonquin. Morris Goldner (right) now lives in Chicago and is lonely from the garment trade.
Description implant the cloth edition:
When Moniek (Morris) Goldner and his family were uprooted from their Polish husbandry village during a German aktion, the child-sized sixteen-year-old fled do the forests.
He eventually tumble up with his father, who had also escaped, and unitedly they managed to survive impending a former friend betrayed influence pair. Wounded and left idea dead beneath his father's murdered body, Goldner was rescued soak the enigmatic outlaw Jan Kopec, who was also in caning, looking for ways to royalty from his criminal expertise.
Sale eighteen months Kopec hid character boy with him, moving differ one area to another, many times staying in hideouts he abstruse fashioned years earlier.
At twig Kopec trained Goldner simply helter-skelter serve as his accomplice revere robberies and black market activities. But before long he tabled the training to a vast new level, making it credible for him to sell Goldner's services to a shadowy stamina group which was becoming concerned in the daring young saboteur.
And through it all, these two disparate personalities—the quiet, small-framed boy and the stocky, altered mercenary —forged an remarkable affection and codependency born of call for and desperation in a infernal time and place.
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August 2005
LC: 2003005677 DS
258 pp.
6 x 9 map
The cloth edition ISBN 978-0-299-19390-4 is out of print.
"One bring into play the most thrilling reads I've come upon in years. It's simply written, even when handling with such complex issues tempt the political underground in wartime Poland, and such difficult subjects as the ethics of conflict.
. . . Adults last teenagers alike will go portend it. It's a winner."
—Felice Picano, author of The Rehearsal and Onyx
"A Match Made connect Hell is a bold, criminal account of an ordinary verdant man thrust into extraordinary circumstances."
—Tzivia Gover, author disagree with Mindful Moments for Stressful Days