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Citizen 865 : the hunt for Hitler's hidden soldiers in America / Debbie Cenziper.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: xvii, 300 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316449656
  • 0316449652
Other title:
  • Citizen eight hundred sixty-five
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Contents:
Prologue: The dance -- Occupied Poland 1941-1943. The shtetl of Zolochiv ; The color of blood ; The wedding -- United States 1978-1992. Proper work ; Darkness comes my way ; Light at long last ; Breach of power ; God's grace ; Secrets and lies ; Sunrise in Prague ; Code for murder ; Seven floors above Manhattan -- Poland and the United States 1941-1951. Health and welfare ; Courage and devotion ; Amchu? ; Good fortune -- United States 1996-2013. Long after dark ; Winter in Penza ; The work of murder ; Taken up ; Compassion ; Second chances ; Credible evidence ; Trawniki -- Epilogue. Feels like vindication.
Summary: In the tiny Polish village of Trawniki, the SS set up a school for mass murder and then recruited a roving army of foot soldiers, 5,000 men strong, to help annihilate the Jewish population of occupied Poland. After the war, some of these men vanished, making their way to the U.S. and blending into communities across America. In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians discovered a Nazi roster from 1945. The long-forgotten document, containing more than 700 names, helped unravel the details behind the "Trawniki Men" who had spent years hiding in plain sight, their terrible secrets intact. Cenziper chronicles how a tenacious team of prosecutors and historians pursued these men and, up against the forces of time and political opposition, battled to the present day to remove them from U.S. soil. -- adapted from jacket
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 364.138 C397 Available 33111009410990
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**Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Book Award Finalist**

The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two.
In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever seen. The long-forgotten document, containing more than 700 names, helped unravel the details behind the most lethal killing operation in World War Two.

In the tiny Polish village of Trawniki, the SS set up a school for mass murder and then recruited a roving army of foot soldiers, 5,000 men strong, to help annihilate the Jewish population of occupied Poland. After the war, some of these men vanished, making their way to the U.S. and blending into communities across America. Though they participated in some of the most unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, "Trawniki Men" spent years hiding in plain sight, their terrible secrets intact.

In a story spanning seven decades, Citizen 865 chronicles the harrowing wartime journeys of two Jewish orphans from occupied Poland who outran the men of Trawniki and settled in the United States, only to learn that some of their one-time captors had followed. A tenacious team of prosecutors and historians pursued these men and, up against the forces of time and political opposition, battled to the present day to remove them from U.S. soil.

Through insider accounts and research in four countries, this urgent and powerful narrative provides a front row seat to the dramatic turn of events that allowed a small group of American Nazi hunters to hold murderous men accountable for their crimes decades after the war's end.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-286) and index.

Prologue: The dance -- Occupied Poland 1941-1943. The shtetl of Zolochiv ; The color of blood ; The wedding -- United States 1978-1992. Proper work ; Darkness comes my way ; Light at long last ; Breach of power ; God's grace ; Secrets and lies ; Sunrise in Prague ; Code for murder ; Seven floors above Manhattan -- Poland and the United States 1941-1951. Health and welfare ; Courage and devotion ; Amchu? ; Good fortune -- United States 1996-2013. Long after dark ; Winter in Penza ; The work of murder ; Taken up ; Compassion ; Second chances ; Credible evidence ; Trawniki -- Epilogue. Feels like vindication.

In the tiny Polish village of Trawniki, the SS set up a school for mass murder and then recruited a roving army of foot soldiers, 5,000 men strong, to help annihilate the Jewish population of occupied Poland. After the war, some of these men vanished, making their way to the U.S. and blending into communities across America. In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians discovered a Nazi roster from 1945. The long-forgotten document, containing more than 700 names, helped unravel the details behind the "Trawniki Men" who had spent years hiding in plain sight, their terrible secrets intact. Cenziper chronicles how a tenacious team of prosecutors and historians pursued these men and, up against the forces of time and political opposition, battled to the present day to remove them from U.S. soil. -- adapted from jacket

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