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Polish-Jewish writer and painter who spent most of his life as working as a high school art teacher in the city of his birth, Drohobycz. His first books, Cinnamon Shops (1934) and The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1937) were critically acclaimed, winning the Golden Laurel award by the Polish Academy of Literature. His next two books, were lost during the war. At the age of 50, Schultz was shot by a Nazi officer in the Drohobycz ghetto. In 2001, a mural that he had created for the Nazi Gestapo officer Felix Landau, in exchange for food and protection, was smuggled to Israel and moved to the Yad Vashem Museum.
