Hermann Wygoda

Hermann Wygoda was a German-born Polish Jew who defied the Nazis in three countries during the Holocaust. He lived in Poland from the beginning of the war in 1939 until 1943 when he moved to Germany. In Poland, he was a smuggler to the Warsaw ghetto and worked at a German border patrol camp. In Germany he was an armed courier, a translator, and a foreman for a German business. At the end of 1943 he escaped to Italy where …