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An edition of In the Shadow of the Swastika (1998)

In the shadow of the swastika

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He was known first as a Warsaw ghetto smuggler, then as Comandante Enrico. He traveled under false identity papers and worked at a German border patrol station. Throughout the years of the Holocaust, Hermann Wygoda lived a life of narrow escapes, unsavory masquerades, and battles that almost defy reason. In the Shadow of the Swastika tells the story of a Polish Jew whose harrowing wartime adventures reached their amazing end when he received the American Bronze Star from Gen. Mark Clark in June 1946.

Wygoda kept a journal during the time he spent in the mountains of northern Italy, where he rose from commanding a platoon to leading a division of nearly twenty-five hundred partisans that ultimately liberated the city of Savona.

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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Pages
167

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Jewish resistance, Jews, Underground movements, World War, 1939-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Personal narratives, Biography, Partisan, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Judenvernichtung, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866, War Underground movements, Holocaust survivors, Holocaust memorials, Jews, poland, Jews, biography, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, World war, 1939-1945, underground movements, italy, Juifs, Biographies, Holocauste, 1939-1945, Récits personnels, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Mouvements de résistance juifs, Mouvements de résistance, War

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Hermann Wygoda (1906-)

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Poland, Italy
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In the Shadow of the Swastika
March 11, 2003, University of Illinois Press
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1998, University of Illinois Press
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Table of Contents

First days of the war
Kossow
My decision
My brother is taken, again
Twice arrested
Liquidation of the Sokolow ghetto
Twice saved by intuition
Escape to Berlin
In Berlin, again
Three times to the rescue
Escape to Italy
Arrested, once again
Recruited by the partisans
Negotiations with a German commander
Execution of a Nazi
We liberate Savona
Finding a new home
Afterword.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.53/18
Library of Congress
DS135.P63 W945 1998, DS135.P63W945 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 167 p., [22] p. of plates :
Number of pages
167

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Open Library
OL674971M
Internet Archive
inshadowofswasti0000wygo
ISBN 10
025202382X
LCCN
97021147
OCLC/WorldCat
37260860
Library Thing
8035883

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I awoke suddenly to the combined shrills of the air-defense system and the thundering explosions of antiaircraft guns.
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