Strange story from Danzig/Gdansk

Khukri

Khukri

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Found this:

Googling Hussar and Danzig...
http://www.jewishgen.org/danzig/gallery.php?g=Boss

"Ratz-Batz" Arthur Levandovsky
Arthur Levandovsky, nephew of Louis Boss, wearing the uniform of a Black Hussar. After World War I, he lived in the Danzig suburb of Schidlitz and was a horse-trader."On the night of 12 November 1938, when Nazi stormtroopers burned down the synagogues of Langfuhr and Zoppot, Arthur guarded the Danzig Central Synagogue, club in hand, with other First World War veterans." Later, he managed to escape the Nazis in Danzig and made his way to Naharia, Israel, via a lengthy detention in British Mauritius. "When the Nazis swept through Danzig into Poland, a motorcycle unit of the SS caught up with him and his horses on a country road in Kashubia. They shot the Jews among the traders on the spot, but because of the photo of Arthur as a black-uniformed Hussar and the Iron Cross he wore, they let him go."


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Rgds,

Francis
 
'Strange story' is not quite right, more of a 'moving story' perhaps. Levandovsky was lucky he had those items in his possession otherwise he undoubtedly would have joined his colleagues in being summarily executed.

It makes you think what you would take with you if you had to depart your home on short notice with a view to never returning.

An interesting story. Thanks Khukri.
 
Brilliant story! I wonder which regiment he was with? His Kolpak cannot be seen for some reason. A story like that was a good way to begin my evening alone. Thank you. :thumbleft:
 
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