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How Languages Saved Me: A Polish Story of Survival - Haska, Tadeusz, and Naumann, Stefanie
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"When I was arrested my whole world crumbled. I knew that leaders of political parties had been arrested, and never heard from again. My only chance at survival was to find a way to escape from the jail." Orphaned in Poland at the age of thirteen, Tadeusz "Tad" Haska survived World War II on the run, narrowly evading the Nazis every step of the way. After the war, he daringly escaped jail by the Soviet Secret Police, fled to Sweden and launched an elaborate plan to smuggle his wife in a coffin on an all-male naval ship. ...

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How Languages Saved Me: A Polish Story of Survival 2019, Lone Cypress Books

ISBN-13: 9781633939233

Trade paperback

How Languages Saved Me: A Polish Story of Survival 2019, Lone Cypress Books

ISBN-13: 9781633939257

Hardcover