Slovak People of World War II - Slovakian Nazi Collaborators, Maria Gulovich Liu, Jozef Gabk, Jn Golian, Gustv Wendrinsk, Alexander Mach (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Slovakian Nazi Collaborators, Maria Gulovich Liu, Jozef Gabk, Jn Golian, Gustv Wendrinsk, Alexander Mach, Augustn Malr, Jozef Turanec. Excerpt: Maria Gulovich Liu (October 19, 1921 - September 25, 2009) was a Slovakian schoolteacher who joined the underground resistance during World War II. She was awarded the Bronze Star for her "heroic and meritorious" service in aiding agents of the American Office of Strategic Services ("OSS") and British intelligence escape Nazi-occupied territory during the winter of 1944-1945. Gulovich was born in Jakubany, Slovakia, near Jarabina in 1921. She was the blue-eyed daughter of a father who was a Greek Catholic village priest and a mother who was an elementary school teacher. She attended the Greek Catholic Institute for Teachers in Preov. She became a school teacher in Jarabina in 1940 and later in Hriov. After Slovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Gulovich continued to teach. In early 1944, a Jewish friend asked Gulovich to hide his sister and her five-year-old son. She later recalled, "I never intended to hide anyone. My sister brought the woman's brother and he was crying and I'm a softie. And he said, 'Would you hide her just for a few days until she finds something else?' She never did. I was stuck with them." From April through June 1944, Gulovich hid the woman and her son in the Hriov schoolhouse where she taught, allowing them to stay in the living quarters while she slept in the classroom. Her concealment of the Jews was reported to the Slovakian authorities, and a Slovak Army captain was sent to question Gulovich about her actions. Fortunately for Gulovich, the Slovak officer sent to investigate was part of the anti-fascist resistance. Gulovich later recalled, "Lucky for me. Other... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24564407