- SURNAME
Thomas
- FORENAME
Michel
- UNIT
French Resistance (FFI)
- RANK
Lieutenant
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Silver Star (US)
- PLACE
France 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 3.2.1914 Lodz,Poland (as Moniek (Moshe) Kroskof)
son of Samuel and Freida Kroskof
University of Bordeaux 1933 (graduated)
University of Vienna,Austria
French Army (Intelligence Corps) 1940
escaped to Nice 1940
changed name to Michel Thomas
French Resistance September 1942 (Lyons)
arrested January 1943
released
Commando group in Grenoble (Gresivaudan Maquis)
assisting OSS and US Army Counter Intelligence Corps
attached 1 Bn 180th Infantry Regiment,45th U.S. Infantry Division
parents murdered Auschwitz
emigrated to Los Angeles,California 1947
married Alice Burns 1979 (divorced 1982) (2 children)
polyglot linguist and language teacher
award Silver Star 2004 for war service
died 8.1.2005 New York,New York
biography "The Test of Courage:The Michel Thomas Story" (Christopher Robbins) 2000
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