@book{220,
  keywords = {immigrants, Polish Americans, World War II, Norwegian Americans, University of Pittsburgh, Nazis},
  author = {Marie McSwigan},
  title = {Snow Treasure},
  abstract = {A group of Norwegian children on sleds risked their lives to sneak $9 million of the town’s gold bullion past Nazi sentries to partisans, who eventually shipped the gold to Baltimore for safe keeping. A subplot involves Pittsburgh as sanctuary: one Nazi soldier captured by the partisans is actually a Pole, Jan Lasek of Krakow, who had been on his way to study at the University of Pittsburgh before being conscripted into the German army. },
  year = {1942},
  pages = {178 p.},
  publisher = {E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc.},
  address = {New York},
  note = {Based on a widely published 1940 newspaper account, which, in recent years, some researchers have claimed to be fictitious.},
  language = {English},
}