num_pages: 258
description: "A Match Made in Hell" is the award-winning memoir of shy Jewish teenager Moniek (Morris) Goldner joining forces with hardened Polish criminal Jan Kopec to survive in Nazi-occupied Poland. First trained as Kopek's accomplice in robberies and black market activities, the orphaned Goldner eventually becomes an accomplished saboteur of the Nazi war effort for local partisan groups. Through it all, Goldner and Kopec forge a remarkable friendship and co-dependency born of need and desperation in a hellish time and place.
language: English
title: A Match Made in Hell: The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis
titlecomplete: A Match Made in Hell: The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis
genres: History, World War II, Holocaust, Jewish, Poland, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 81
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Adult Nonfiction
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press