Product Description
by Agnieszka Piskiewicz (Author), Shay Rotenberg (Illustrator), Yossi Bornstein (Contribution by)
In July 2004, Izyk Mendel Bornstein, an eighty-year-old Polish Jew, succumbs to his children's persistent requests and agrees to show them the land of their ancestors, which he had last seen sixty years earlier, as the prisoner B-94 who was marched off from Auschwitz to Mauthausen. As a sole survivor of his family, and for the first time after his liberation, Bornstein enters his hometown of Szczekociny to find no sign of Jewish life, and to discover desecration of Jewish sites. What was planned as a journey back to their roots, turns into a life changing experience for the entire family who witnesses numerous synchronic events binding the past with the present and bringing the touch of the Divinity.
Author Biography
Agnieszka Piskiewicz - born in 1979, a teacher of English in a Secondary School in Czestochowa, Poland. Raised in Szczekociny, in 2007 she joined the project started by Bornstein family to commemorate Jews from her hometown. Involved in projects aiming at preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, a co-organizer of the Festivals of Jewish Culture in Szczekociny, shares Izyk Mendel Bornstein's belief that Everybody is born to change the world. After an interview and numerous conversations with Bornstein, she shapes his survival story into B - 94, The Spirit of the Survivor
