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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Table of Contents
- Hidden in the Enemys Sight 1
- Jan Kamieński Jan Kamieński 1
- Contents 8
- Foreword 10
- Part 1 14
- IN POLAND 14
- Part 2 74
- IN THE THIRD REICH 74
- Part 3 136
- IMPROVING FORTIFICATIONS 136
- ForCed labour 138
- Part 4 176
- THE REICH COLLAPSES 176
- Final days 214
- Part 5 228
- THE RUSSIAN OCCUPATION 228
- Fake art 268
- Part 6 274
- TO THE WEST 274
- Farewell to europe 291
- Hidden in the Enemys Sight 306
- Jan Kamieński Jan Kamieński 306