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The long,dangerous WWII Polish diaspora to Italy, Gothic Line - Part 2; a simple twist of fate turns potential tradedy into a love story for a Jewish refugee that fought in the Polish Army in Italy
``The further backwards you can look, the further forward you can see,'' Winston Churchill on the need to know history.
By Joe Kirwin
When Leone Singer escaped Austria and Hitler's Jewish genocide the ever changing national borders in central Europe confused a bureaucratic in the city of Trieste. As a result he issued iin 1938 an identity card that determined Leone's nationality as stateless and, most important, it omitted his Jewish heritage. As a result he was able to begin a new life in Italy. But eventually the Fascist government caught up with him and had him arrested in mid 1943 - but…
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