Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) was born into a family that owned a cloth shop in the Drohobycz market. He rarely left the city, although the city itself would pass from Austrian to Polish, then Soviet, and finally Nazi jurisdiction during his lifetime. He worked as a grammar school drawing teacher in Drohobycz, where he wrote his stories, mythologized accounts of his own childhood, the progressive illness of his aging father and the financial ruin of his family; stories full of eccentric relatives and citizens who vividly bear witness to a way of life that was swept away in the Holocaust. Schulz was killed in the town where he was born by a Gestapo officer, who then allegedly went to another Gestapo officer and told him: "You killed my Jew, so I shot yours." Schulz's fame rests on his talent as both a writer and a visual artist; he first gained fame in 1922, when his collection of cliché-verre drawings, The Book of Idolatry , was presented in Warsaw and Lviv. But it was precisely two collections of stories, Cinnamon Grocers (1934) and Sanatorium in the Shadow of the Sandstone (1937), that provided him with immortality and the reputation of the greatest modern prose stylist of the Polish language.