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Come on and Ride the Train: The Kastner Story Part III

Jewish History Soundbites

The escape of Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler from Auschwitz and the rescue efforts.

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[Music] a date which will live in infamy. [Music] >> Both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the G. >> The 11 Olympic team members slain in West Germany. to help Americ were Americans who had come to learn in the tarant. I save 1 million Jewish children who were made to be cut. [Music] Who ever heard such beautiful words with Jewish history sound bites and this episode is part three of our ongoing episode is part three of our ongoing series about the story of the Castner train and later on in the series hopefully his subsequent trial not his trial but the trial that he was involved with um incorrectly referred to as the casting trial. We didn't get to that yet we're still in Hungary during the war. Um, parts one and two were very wellreceived. I've been getting tons of feedback. Um, overwhelming. Uh, amazing feedback by the way. Keep it coming. Um, really nice to hear and you know, really nice to hear and you know, different views and opinions and, uh, compliments for sure. They're awesome. And, um, I I think I'll save the feedback for later on in the series, so I don't want to spend time on it right now. I want to state some goals for part three. The goals for part three is to discuss a very crucial story in the unfolding tragedy of the uh Nazi massacre of Hungarian jury and that is the Verba Vetsler Avitz protocols. Um,

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  1. 0:02[Music] a date which will live in infamy. [Music] >> Both of those projects initiatives got
  2. 5:46information as Kner and they did not act like this terrible Kner and they did warn
  3. 12:001940s. So that we'll talk about when we get to the trial. But those are the
  4. 17:38I know, he was the first Jewish escapee from the camp. He and Vetsler were the
  5. 23:47translations Hungarian English and other languages right um we don't have the original notes that he
  6. 29:58There's no internet. So, you have to physically get the information out. And in wartime censorship,
  7. 35:36etsler report there's this hesitation to disseminate it in mass there's also logistical difficulties transmitting documents
  8. 41:53down. And that's the goal. That's the only goal in Verba's view." And Verba's other harsh
  9. 47:29s might not h might not have significantly reduced the death toll. Um but it could
  10. 53:45last episode. But my point is another point of mine is is that even if Verba

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