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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 33787" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Thomas </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Michel </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>French Resistance (FFI) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Silver Star (US) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>France 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 3.2.1914 Lodz,Poland (as Moniek (Moshe) Kroskof)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Samuel and Freida Kroskof</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>University of Bordeaux 1933 (graduated)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>University of Vienna,Austria</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>French Army (Intelligence Corps) 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>escaped to Nice 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>changed name to Michel Thomas</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>French Resistance September 1942 (Lyons)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>arrested January 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>released</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commando group in Grenoble (Gresivaudan Maquis)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>assisting OSS and US Army Counter Intelligence Corps</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>attached 1 Bn 180th Infantry Regiment,45th U.S. Infantry Division</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parents murdered Auschwitz</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>emigrated to Los Angeles,California 1947</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Alice Burns 1979 (divorced 1982) (2 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>polyglot linguist and language teacher</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award Silver Star 2004 for war service</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 8.1.2005 New York,New York</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>biography "</em><a href="https://amzn.to/3hU1HuP" target="_blank"><em>The Test of Courage:The Michel Thomas Story</em></a><em>" (Christopher Robbins) 2000</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/m-thomas.5675/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/5/5675-644e31154a94772a3baa09c84c769f5c.jpg?1591384357" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/m-thomas.5500/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/5/5500-ae910f40cdb29af6fea21b5421be7945.jpg?1591384312" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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