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Author | : Tom Firth |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1844684822 |
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Tom Firth was born in Japan where his English father and Polish mother were living. He begins by describing his unusual childhood and the devastating Yokohama earthquake in 1923. In 1930 the family settled in Warsaw, Poland. However they became split up when Poland became overrun by the Nazis and the Russians in 1939. Whilst his father and older brother were in England, Tom found himself trapped in the Russian-occupied part of the country and, after several agonizing months, eventually made his way to Warsaw where his mother had managed to survive the bombing of the city. He vividly describes life under both regimes, as well as the cat-and-mouse game his mother was forced to play with the Gestapo in order to avoid arrest. Later, both became deeply involved with the sheltering of escaped British prisoners of war and it was this activity which led to his capture and imprisonment in a jail in Krakow. Miraculously released after eighteen months captivity, largely due to his command of the Polish language, he vowed to escape to Britain at all cost.Later in the war and after many harrowing experiences he succeeded in getting through to the Red Army, but was again faced with hostility, suspicion and imprisonment. Held for several months in primitive conditions, he, along with two British companions was finally taken to Moscow and handed over to the British Military Mission there. Arriving in Scotland with a convoy of supply ships late in December 1944, he had the galling experience of spending a night in Brixton Prison. With nowhere to go he then began a frantic search for his father and brother, who were convinced that he was dead. His dream came true, but even after the ending of hostilities and later in time, tragedy struck with the news of his mothers arrest by the Polish Communist authorities. Sentenced to death for alleged espionage, she spent several years in prison, being freed in a Government amnesty and arriving in England in 1956.
Author | : Robert J. Richey |
Publisher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1456766880 |
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My brother Glenn served in the US Eighth Air Force during the Air War over Germany in 1944. His plane was shot down on his 22nd mission just inside the French Coast two days before the Landing on D-Day. He was rescued by French farmers but later was betrayed by another frenchman in Paris to the Gestapo. He was incarcerated in Buchenwald, one of the Death Camps. He survived the War and lived his life out in the Town in East Texas he grew up in. This is his Story in his words.
Author | : Krystyna Wituska |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780814332948 |
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A compelling firsthand account of life behind bars in Nazi Germany, from the point of view of a young member of the Polish Underground.
Author | : Dr. Alfred Wallner |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2011-08-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1462043771 |
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Like many heroes, the narrator of this remarkable story, his own, was a reluctant and even unwilling one. It happened when he was confronted with a moral dilemma and something within him made the right choice, to the surprise and even the disapproval of the rest of him that much wanted to protect his young family. He too was young. The time was early 1945, when savage World War II was coming to an end in Europe. Alfred Wallner, a doctor serving in the lower Austrian alps as the Allied armies closed in on Germanys appalling Third Reich that Austria had joined in 1938, detested the Nazis but not enough to risk virtually certain death if hed be caught helping Americans. But he did help a team of them and was quickly caught, after which he was taken to a Gestapo prison where the people he met, from his cellmates to the warders, were not merely a fascinating cast of characters but also a fair sample of the types one encounters in any country under stress. In that way and others, Dr. Wallners story is a cautionary as well as a gripping tale, and it contains a great surprise.
Author | : Erich O. Friedrich |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1612340849 |
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Coauthor Erich Friedrich won the Iron Cross fighting the Soviets. But when he refused to give the Nazi salute and criticized Hermann Göring, he was charged with subversion and thrown into a cell. With him were a suspected spy, two accused deserters, a Jehovah's Witness, a draft dodger, and a leftist. To try to push back the terror of the unknown, each man took a turn telling why he was awaiting torture and possibly death. Friedrich vowed to remember their remarkable stories forever.
Author | : Witold Majewski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Adam Goldberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1997* |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lucie Aubrac |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1994-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780803259232 |
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Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007), of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the Resistance movement in opposition to the Nazis and their collaborators. Outwitting the Gestapo is Lucie's harrowing account of her participation in the Resistance: of the months when, though pregnant, she planned and took part in raids to free comrades—including her husband, under Nazi death sentence—from the prisons of Klaus Barbie, the infamous Butcher of Lyon. Her book is also the basis for the 1997 French movie, Lucie Aubrac, which was released in the United States in 1999.
Author | : Robert J. Richey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781456766870 |
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My brother Glenn served in the US Eighth Air Force during the Air War over Germany in 1944. His plane was shot down on his 22nd mission just inside the French Coast two days before the Landing on D-Day. He was rescued by French farmers but later was betrayed by another frenchman in Paris to the Gestapo. He was incarcerated in Buchenwald, one of the Death Camps. He survived the War and lived his life out in the Town in East Texas he grew up in. This is his Story in his words.
Author | : John Slater |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1966 |
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