Hidden in the Enemy's Sight; Resisting the Third Reich from Within
Kamienski, Jan
From Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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From Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Heritage Bookseller
AbeBooks Member Since 1996
About this Item
[978-1-55002-854-6] 2008. (Trade paperback) Very good plus. 302pp. Label signed by the author on the half-title page. Map, photographs, illustrations, index. Foreword by Edward Schreyer. Locale: ; Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (World War 2, Resistance Movement, World War 2). Seller Inventory # 142844
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Title: Hidden in the Enemy's Sight; Resisting the ...
Publisher: Dundurn Press 978-1-55002-854-6, Toronto
Binding: Soft cover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
About this title
For 16-year-old Jan Kamienski, life as he knows it ends when Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939. After a great deal of hardship, he joins the Polish Resistance and eventually, in 1941, is sent to Dresden, Germany, to take up Underground activities there. Armed with false papers, he works at various jobs, maintains a clandestine stopover for Allied couriers, produces Polish-language news bulletins for Poles housed in forced-labour camps, and does everything he can within the heartland of the Third Reich to sabotage the Nazis’ war effort. Among Kamienksi’s many horrific experiences is his survival during the terrible firebombing of Dresden in February 1945.
After the war, the author becomes a translator in East Germany for the Russian occupiers, studies at the art academy in Dresden, and eventually finds work as an artist. In 1948, after marrying a German woman, he escapes the Soviet zone, is brutally interrogated in a Polish
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