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"The Leica Freedom Train" Film Being Produced

Submitted by Holocaust Aware... on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 9:32pm

During the 1930s and 40s, the son of the founder of the Leica camera company, Ernst Leitz II and his daughter smuggled hundreds of Jews out of Germany before the Holocaust by assigning them to their oversea Leitz sales offices in Britain, France, Hong Kong, and the United States.

Five Day Death March Recounted by a Survivor

Submitted by Holocaust Aware... on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 11:11am

A July 26, 2009 article from aish.com about a five day death march in which a teenager was forced to march with 6,000 starved, dehydrated and beaten people.

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