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The Old Man
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U-214 - I know history of brave Greek nation during WW2, we fought together at the same side
![]() Did you hear about Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz? He was Polish, his step-father Jan Lambriandis was Greek. He lived in Warsaw (Poland) and Thesaloniki, studied in Belgium (where he was academic master of swimming). He spoke English, Russian, French, German and Greek of course. In September 1939 he stayed in Greece and helped Polish fugitives. In 1941 he wanted to enter to Polish Army in Palestina, but finally he became English agent of SOE (Special Operations Executive). In October 1941 he was in Greece again, where he was leader of intelligence group and spies as Kiriakos Paryssis. Three times he was captured by Gestapo, two times he escaped. In March 1942 he sank U-133 in base (as a result of magnetic mines) and some ships in Pireus and Faros and destroyed many planes at airbases. In Korinthos base he laid under magnetic mine in U-372 (U-372 was forced to emergency surface by this fact and destroyed by English). In September 1942 he was betrayed and captured. He was killed in 4 January 1943 during escape by SS-man. J. Iwanow-Szajnowicz was respected as national Greek hero, in Thesaloniki you can see his monument. |
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