My War against the Nazis A Jewish Soldier with the Red Army Alabama Fire Ant 1st Edition by Adam Broner, Antony Polonsky ISBN 978-0817354176 0817354174
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ISBN 10: 0817354174
ISBN 13: 978-0817354176
Author: Adam Broner, Antony Polonsky
A poignant account of the perils and fortunes of an indomitable survivor of violence in Eastern Europe during World War II.
In 1939, to escape Nazi occupation, 14-year-old Adam Broner and his older brother Sam left their home and family in Lodz, Poland, and made their way to the Soviet Union. Adam enlisted in the Red Army to join the fight against the Nazis but was sent to work in a Siberian coal mine instead when his nationality was discovered. After a bold and daring escape from Siberia, Broner reached the Soviet Polish Kosciuszko Army, joined the struggle against the Nazis, participated in the liberation of Poland, and rode victorious into Berlin in 1945. He later learned that his parents, siblings (except Sam), and all other close relatives had perished during the war.
Broner rebuilt his life, established a family, returned to Moscow for a degree in economics, and then went back to Poland, where he accepted a job in the Polish central planning agency. Eventually fed up with the growing anti-Semitism of the Communist government there, the author emigrated to the United States in 1969. He earned a doctorate from Princeton University and served as an economic adviser to New Jersey governors and the state legislature. In retirement, Broner learned portrait painting and reproduced the likenesses of his parents and siblings from memory, which are presented along with their biographies in this book.
In recounting his struggle for survival during some of the most dramatic upheavals of the 20th century— the Great Depression, Nazism, World War II, and the spread of Communism in Central Europe— Broner reveals a life dedicated to the ultimate goal of freedom, which he achieved through a combination of arduous effort and fortunate circumstance.
Table of contents:
I. FLEEING THE NAZIS TO THE “SOVIET PARADISE”
1. German Occupation and Terror
2. Escape from Occupied Poland
3. “So You Want to Go to the Soviet Paradise?”
4. From Bialystok to Novosibirsk
5. A Lavish Reception for the Liberated Belorussians
6. The Prosecutor’s Case
7. Ivanovo-Vozniesiensk: Where One Could Buy Flour and Sugar
II. MY WAR WITH THE NAZIS
8. The Working Battalions of the Red Army
9. In the Eighth Reserve Regiment of the Red Army
10. A Red Army Deserter from Siberia
11. Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union
12. A Jew in the Polish Army
13. The Kosciuszko Army Joins the Struggle
14. The Magnuszew Bridgehead
15. In Support of the Warsaw Uprising
16. Liberating Warsaw
17. Racing to Berlin
18. War after Victory
III. STAGES OF NEW LIFE
19. Return to Lodz
20. Moscow: The Center of Indoctrination
21. Revolt against Stalinist Excesses in Poland
22. Mobilization of Reserve Officers in 1967
23. The 1968 Student Revolt in Poland
24. The Purge of Jews
25. Exodus from Poland
IV. FREEDOM AT LAST
26. Vienna and Rome: Refugees Again
27. New York and Princeton: Vistas of Opportunity
28. The Rats Abandon the Sinking Ship: The Collapse of the Soviet Union
29. Pilgrimage to the Past-Kamiensk, the Shtetl
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