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Title: The twentieth train: the remarkable true story of the only successful ambush on the the journey to Auschwitz / Marion Schreiber foreword by Paul Spiegel / translated by Shaun Whiteside [Go to resource]
Description: On 19 April 1943 three young men stopped a train. It was transporting 1 631 Jews from Mechelen in Belgium to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers a hurricane lamp covered in red paper and a single pistol these men helped over 200 prisoners to escape. The Nazi reaction was swift and brutal. Temporal: 2004 Source: Lincolnshire County Council Identifier: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... Go to resource More Like this...
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