On June 19th at 11:30 AM by Zoom, Mark Wygoda will present the story of his father, Holocaust survivor, Hermann Wygoda, the only member of his family to have survived the Holocaust. Hermann Wygoda was born in Germany in 1906 to Polish parents, grew up fluent in both German and Polish, and was working as a civil engineer in Warsaw at the start of WWII. He survived the Holocaust by living a covert life posing as a Catholic Pole of German ancestry. In Poland he smuggled food into the Warsaw ghetto and worked at a German military camp. Later he worked in Berlin as a construction foreman, a translator, and an armed courier before he made his way to German-occupied Italy. There he became a partisan brigade commander who planned and directed attacks on enemy convoys and troops passing through the mountains west of the city of Savona. After the war he was awarded an American Bronze Star medal for valor in combat by a US general. He then immigrated to the United States where he married, raised a family, and founded the Wygoda Building Corporation in Chattanooga TN. | 
