Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in WW2 Era America

by Michael Benson

Birns was born in 1907 as Alexander Birnstein in the town of Lemes, which was in Austria, Hungary, or Czechoslovakia, depending on when you looked at the map.

Oh, hey, my in-laws are from then! Plus, my FIL was also Yugoslavian.