. he published two collections of short stories - Cinnamon Shops and The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass - during his lifetime Schulz was shot and killed by a German Gestapo officer in 1942, whilst walking home with a loaf of bread. Much of his writing, including his final, unfinished novel The Messiah, was lost in the Holocaust. -- source: https://www.amazon.com/Nocturnal-Apparitions-Essential-Bruno-Schulz/dp/1782277897/ ...now this makes more sense. Amazon's editorial review for Schulz's The Cinnamon Shops & Other Stories reads, "Schulz would be murdered in the town in which he was born by a Nazi officer who then reportedly went to a colleague to say, 'You shot my Jew, so I have shot yours.'" Bruno Schulz was initially spared by an officer of the Gestapo who admired his artwork and wanted him to paint a mural on a child's wall. {courtesy of BJA Samuel's twttr acc. as is the picture of Schulz's mural below}
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