.............from the web.
Arthur Levandovsky, a Jew, wearing the uniform of a Totenkopf Hussar.
After World War I, he lived in the Danzig suburb of Schidlitz and was a horse-trader.
From On the Vistula Facing East, by Frank Meisler....
"On the night of 12 November 1938, when Nazi SA and SS burned down the synagogues of Langfuhr and Zoppot, Arthur guarded the Danzig Central Synagogue, club in hand, with other First World War veterans. When the Nazis swept through Danzig into Poland, a motorcycle unit of the SS caught up with him and his horses on a country road in Kashubia. They shot the Jews among the traders on the spot, but because of the photo of Arthur as a black-uniformed Totenkopf Hussar and his Iron Cross, the SS let him go."
Arthur Levandovsky, a Jew, wearing the uniform of a Totenkopf Hussar.
After World War I, he lived in the Danzig suburb of Schidlitz and was a horse-trader.
From On the Vistula Facing East, by Frank Meisler....
"On the night of 12 November 1938, when Nazi SA and SS burned down the synagogues of Langfuhr and Zoppot, Arthur guarded the Danzig Central Synagogue, club in hand, with other First World War veterans. When the Nazis swept through Danzig into Poland, a motorcycle unit of the SS caught up with him and his horses on a country road in Kashubia. They shot the Jews among the traders on the spot, but because of the photo of Arthur as a black-uniformed Totenkopf Hussar and his Iron Cross, the SS let him go."
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