Antony lishak biography

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Antony lishak biography

Leave a Comment Send an Email. After more than 15 years as a primary school teacher, I decided to swap the company of a room full of children for my PC and a vat full of coffee. For years I had taught during the day and written at night and, as my 40th year approached, thought it was about time I left school! Ironically I now spend practically as many days in schools as I did as a teacher - I manage to visit over schools a year.

I find it immensely rewarding to draw parallels between what children do in class and what I do now as a professional writer. As I often say to children - "We do exactly the same job, although you don't get paid for it I grew up in North London wanting to play for Arsenal, become a solo cellist and to write books - two to go then!

I was brought up on a strict diet of the Marx Brothers and consequently think that life without laughter is hardly worth living. Between university where I studied Sociology and teacher training college I worked in a wine-bottling factory, a DIY warehouse, as an audio-tape salesman in Stockholm, an orange-picker in Israel and an assistant cook on the night shift in a factory kitchen!

His career-long involvement in the field of Holocaust Education has been defined by the conviction that studying the stark choices made by the tragically few rescuers and resisters during The Holocaust, encourages us to reflect upon our own place in world. We are delighted that Karen has agreed to represent us. She lives in America and regularly returns to London, staying in the flat that she grew up in with her beloved mother.

Eric is commited to Holocaust commemoration. Who We Are We're a small group of people commited to changing the world one story at a time.