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Hidden in the Enemy's Sight : Resisting the Third Reich from Within

1 Dec 2008

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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Jan Kamienski

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CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
940.53/43/092
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
General Note
Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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e-pl---
ISBN
9781550028546 9781770703629
LCCN
D802.P6
LCCN Item number
K266 2008eb
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CaBNVSL
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CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (302 p.)
Published in
Canada
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CaOOCEL
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)slc00225146 (OCoLC)666232926 (CaOOCEL)433389
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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CaOONL

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