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Events on Thursday 19 November 1942 1
1892 – 1942Bruno Schulz (1892-1942)Died 19 November 1942, aged 50Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer and artist, author of The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. He was shot dead by a Gestapo officer in the Drohobych ghetto. He is considered one of the great Polish prose stylists of the 20th century.