World War II, Military 

A sensation when it appeared in Poland in 1983, the true story of Bruno Shatyn's extraordinarily successful attempts to deceive the Nazis reads like a suspense thriller, but it is much more. This Polish Jew survived, not in hiding or in a concentration camp, but in the open, masquerading as a non-Jew. And Shatyn, during his six-year ordeal, retains his objectivity. In 1942, armed with "Aryan papers" obtained with the help of Polish friends, he is the manager of an estate near Cracow. From this base, he smuggles family members out of the doomed Cracow ghetto, providing them with false working and residence permits, jobs, apartments, personal histories. One brother-in-law works in a German army canteen; another becomes director of the local German labor office. So complete is the deception that when Shatyn's aged mother dies, her Catholic funeral is attended by a contingent of local Nazi officials in full uniform. Shatyn wins the battle for survival, but perhaps most important is that he survives as a rational man, with courage, fairness, and humor. - from Amzon