A Match Made in Hell

by Stillman, Larry

• ISBN13: 9780299193904
• ISBN10: 029919390X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

When Moniek (Morris) Goldner and his family were uprooted from their Polish farming village during a German action, the child-sized sixteen-year-old fled into the forests. He eventually met up with his father, who had also escaped, and together they managed to survive until a former friend betrayed the pair. Wounded and left for dead beneath his father's murdered body, Goldner was rescued by the enigmatic outlaw Jan Kopec, who was also in hiding, looking for ways to profit from his criminal expertise. For eighteen months Kopec hid the boy with him, moving from one area to another, often staying in hideouts he had fashioned years earlier. At first Kopec trained Goldner simply to serve as his accomplice in robberies and black market activities. But before long he pushed the training to a whole new level, making it possible for him to sell Goldner's services to a shadowy resistance group which was becoming interested in the daring young saboteur. And through it all, these two disparate personalitiesthe quiet, small-framed boy and the stocky, callous mercenaryforged an remarkable friendship and co-dependency born of need and desperation in a hellish time and place.

Author Biography

Larry Stillman is a writer living in Lake Forest, Illinois. Morris Goldner lives in Chicago and is retired from the garment trade.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Rescue	3	(10)
Into the Forest	13	(15)
Kopec	28	(13)
Sedziszow	41	(14)
Saboteur	55	(12)
After Sedziszow	67	(22)
Close Calls	89	(9)
Podkarpacie	98	(10)
Grabiny	108	(14)
The Train	122	(17)
Let My People Go	139	(7)
Shoeshine Boy	146	(10)
Two Bridges	156	(9)
Out of the Fire	165	(9)
Liberation	174	(15)
Revenge	189	(11)
Flight to Berlin	200	(11)
Displaced	211	(12)
America	223	(8)
Author's Postscript: Straszecin, Present Day	231	(8)
Acknowledgments	239	(2)
Bibliography	241