In the shadow of the swastika
By: Hermann Wygoda ; edited by Mark Wygoda ; foreword by Michael Berenbaum.
Contributors: Wygoda, Mark L., 1951-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Wygoda, Hermann, 1906-; Jews -- Poland -- Biography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives; World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance; World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Italy
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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: First days of the war; title: Kossow; title: My decision; title: My brother is taken, again; title: Twice arrested; title: Liquidation of the Sokolow ghetto; title: Twice saved by intuition; title: Escape to Berlin; title: In Berlin, again; title: Three times to the rescue; title: Escape to Italy; title: Arrested, once again; title: Recruited by the partisans; title: Negotiations with a German commander; title: Execution of a Nazi; title: We liberate Savona; title: Finding a new home; title: Afterword.