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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 fathers 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 imaginablewith death always imminentfixing 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 Harrys heartening and unflinchingly honest firstperson 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 nextand a profoundly moving tribute to brotherhood fatherhood family and faith