“He spent two years in concentration, slave labour and deportation camps in France, and was tortured by the Milice, the French Gestapo. He escaped and joined the Resistance, where he took a nom de guerre, Michel Thomas.”
— The obituary of Michel Thomas (Moniek Kroskof, 1914—2005), he of the ‘No books, No writing’ language courses. Never knew he had led such an eventful life.
