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History of Poland (view source)
Revision as of 18:14, September 29, 2023
, 18:14, September 29, 2023→Second Polish Republic
Białystok was [[Operation Barbarossa|occupied by the Germans in 1941]]. Amid massacres against the [[Jewish]] population, Pisar’s father was arrested and executed for taking part in a resistance group and Samuel was transferred along several concentration camps throughout the war. He was evacuated from [[Auschwitz]] to [[Dachau]] following the [[Red Army]]’s westward offensive. While on a death march near [[Munich]], he said that he and fourteen others fled into the woods after a ground strike by an [[American]] bomber squadron that allegedly mistook his four-thousand-man prisoner convoy for [[German]] soldiers. He was rescued by the [[U.S. Army]] shortly thereafter.
Białystok was [[Operation Barbarossa|occupied by the Germans in 1941]]. Amid massacres against the [[Jewish]] population, Pisar’s father was arrested and executed for taking part in a resistance group and Samuel was transferred along several concentration camps throughout the war. He was evacuated from [[Auschwitz]] to [[Dachau]] following the [[Red Army]]’s westward offensive. While on a death march near [[Munich]], he said that he and fourteen others fled into the woods after a ground strike by an [[American]] bomber squadron that allegedly mistook his four-thousand-man prisoner convoy for [[German]] soldiers. He was rescued by the [[U.S. Army]] shortly thereafter.
Pisar went on to become a scholar and international lawyer, earning doctorates from the [[Sorbonne]] and [[Harvard University]] and advising the [[John F. Kennedy]] administration on economic and [[foreign affairs]].<!--In a modus operandi that may well have gotten him labeled as a [[Kremlin]] asset in today’s political climate, Pisar devoted the better part of his career to advancing the cause of U.S.-Soviet rapprochement. “After the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]], I thought that America and Russia would become partners, and maybe allies. I am still studying this and writing about it. Everything started out well, but it was all ruined shortly afterward—it was agonizing for me,” he said.--> Throughout his decades-long career, Pisar met with Soviet General Secretary [[Leonid Brezhnev]], Premier [[Alexei Kosygin]], General Secretary [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], the first Russian President [[Boris Yeltsin]], and—through his work as advisor to International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch—Russia’s current leader [[Vladimir Putin]]. He recounted participating in numerous tense diplomatic negotiations as a political advisor: “The confrontation was very dangerous at the time, but we managed to overcome it because there were cool heads in both Moscow and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]].”
===Up to 1939===
===Up to 1939===