In the shadow of the swastika

Description:

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.

subjects: 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

People: Hermann Wygoda (1906-)

Places: Poland,  Italy