In the Shadow of the Swastika

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In the Shadow of the Swastika

Edited by Mark Wygoda. Foreword by Michael Berenbaum

He was known first as a Warsaw ghetto smuggler, then as Comandante Enrico. He traveled under false identity papers and worked at a German border patrol station. Throughout the years of the Holocaust, Hermann Wygoda lived a life of narrow escapes, daring masquerades, and battles that almost defy reason.

Unique among Holocaust memoirs, In the Shadow of the Swastika, now in paperback, celebrates the memory of a man who received decorations from three Western powers and who, years later, was honored posthumously by the Italian city he helped to liberate.

"The courage and altruism of Hermann Wygoda place him in the pantheon of inspirational Jewish heroes of the Holocaust." -- Jerusalem Post

"Wygoda's memoir supplies fresh evidence concerning the lives of the Jews who passed as Gentiles during the Holocaust. Highly recommended." -- Choice

Supported by the Sheldon Drobny Family Endowment for the University of Illinois Press


Hermann Wygoda, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust, kept a journal of his experiences in the mountains of northern Italy.

Mark Wygoda is a professor of biology and head of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Michael Berenbaum is an adjunct professor of theology at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles and former president and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.

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