Home A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [0-9] recent all Hidden in the Enemy's Sight Submitted by dmacdonell on Sun, 2009-10-04 14:59 Hidden in the Enemy's Sight Resisting the Third Reich from Within By Jan Kamienski 978-1-55002-854-6 December 2008 264pp, Paperback $26.99 CAD Purchase from Amazon Purchase from McNally Robinson Share it Shelve it Kamienski’s memoir reads like an adventure novel, and once opened, few readers will be able to put it down … Winnipeg Free Press 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 Upcoming Events What York's Sacrifice When Wed, May 23, 7:00 pm Where North York Central Library Auditorium What Dundurn Spring Author Launch When Thu, May 24, 6:00 pm Where Arts & Letters Club What 1812 Bicentenary Guest Lecture Series When Thu, May 24, 7:00 pm Where North York Central Library Auditorium What UBC Evening with Jan Wong When Thu, May 24, 7:00 pm Where UBC What Joy Kogawa House Event When Sat, May 26, 12:00 pm Where Joy Kogawa House

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