JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: Polish-Jewish Studies Lecture Sunday May 8

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This lecture may be of interest to JGSGB members. A flyer is attached.

Dr. Julian Bussgang
presenting the newly republished book
Polish Jew-Polish Soldier: 1939–1945
Sunday, May 8, 2011, at 4 PM
Harvard Hillel, 52 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge

The booklet Polish Jew–Polish Soldier: 1939-45 was first published in 1945 by the Jewish Chaplaincy of the Polish 2nd Corps in Italy. The objective of the booklet was to memorialize the valor and brave deeds of Jewish soldiers who fought during World War II in the Underground and in the Polish army, both inside Poland and abroad. In 2010 it was republished in both Polish and English by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.

Dr. Julian Bussgang, who translated the book into English, was born in Lwow, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine. In mid-September 1939, he fled with his parents and sister to Romania and then to Palestine. After finishing a Polish refugee high school in Tel Aviv, he joined the Polish 2nd Corps and fought in the Italian campaign, including the Battle of Monte Cassino. He came to the United States in 1949.

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