In the Shadow of the Swastika

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.

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

שנה

1998

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Illinois Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

224

ISBN

9780252071393

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata