Mark Wygoda, a professor of Zoology, heads the Department of Biology and Health Sciences at McNeese State University (Lake Charles, Louisiana). On May 2, he will discuss, and will illustrate with photographs and documents, the wartime experiences of his late father, Hermann Wygoda, a German-born Polish Jew who during the war fought the Nazis in many ways, becoming sequentially a Warsaw ghetto smuggler, a trusted Berlin courier, and finally a partisan commander in northern Italy who planned attacks against enemy forces, negotiated prisoner exchanges with German commanders, and helped liberate the city of Savona. Three nations later honored him for his work with the Italian resistance. Toward the end of his life, Hermann Wygoda wrote, and his son edited, a memorable account of his career, In the Shadow of the Swastika.
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