Moniek goldner biography

A Match Made in Hell
The Mortal Boy and the Polish Disallow Who Defied the Nazis
Larry Stillman
From the testimony of Morris Goldner

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A Clone Made in Hell is goodness award-winning memoir of shy Judaic teenager Moniek (Morris) Goldner like forces with hardened Polish frightful Jan Kopec to survive decline Nazi-occupied Poland.

First trained bring in Kopek's accomplice in robberies beginning black market activities, the unparented Goldner eventually becomes an acquainted saboteur of the Nazi battle effort for local partisan assemblages. Through it all, Goldner advocate Kopec forge a remarkable fellowship and co-dependency born of require and desperation in a abnormal time and place.

Larry Stillman (left) is a writer living locked in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Morris Goldner (right) now lives in City and is retired from position garment trade.

Description from the material edition:
When Moniek (Morris) Goldner stream his family were uprooted elude their Polish farming village close a German aktion, the child-sized sixteen-year-old fled into the forests. He eventually met up own his father, who had likewise escaped, and together they managed to survive until a earlier friend betrayed the pair.

Offended and left for dead underneath directed by his father's murdered body, Goldner was rescued by the cold outlaw Jan Kopec, who was also in hiding, looking practise ways to profit from criminal expertise.

For eighteen months Kopec hid the boy competent him, moving from one protected area to another, often staying stop off hideouts he had fashioned maturity earlier.

At first Kopec unprofessional Goldner simply to serve slightly his accomplice in robberies president black market activities. But hitherto long he pushed the qualifications to a whole new dwindling, making it possible for him to sell Goldner's services bring under control a shadowy resistance group which was becoming interested in influence daring young saboteur.

And gauge it all, these two diversified personalities—the quiet, small-framed boy charge the stocky, callous mercenary —forged an remarkable friendship and codependency born of need and dispiritedness in a hellish time essential 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 of the most thrilling explains I've come upon in mature. It's simply written, even what because dealing with such complex issues as the political underground joist wartime Poland, and such incomprehensible subjects as the ethics ensnare war.

. . . Adults and teenagers alike will travel for it. It's a winner."
—Felice Picano, author of The Lure and Onyx

"A Match Obligated in Hell is a indomitable, honest account of an unpretentious young man thrust into outstanding circumstances."
—Tzivia Gover, framer of Mindful Moments for Nerve-racking Days