Lost Children of the Holocaust
Alex Last tracks down a group of children who survived the holocaust but were left stranded in post war Europe.
Following the end of the World War Two, the 91热爆 began a series of special radio appeals on behalf of a group of children who had survived the Holocaust but were now stranded as orphans in post-war Europe. A recording of one of these moving broadcasts still exists in the 91热爆 archives. Seventy years on, Alex Last set out to find out what had happened to the 12 children named in this recording. They had been in many camps, including Auschwitz, Muhldorf, Kauferng, Theresienstadt, Belsen, and Dachau, and the modern-day search took him to Germany, Israel and the United States.
Five of the Holocaust survivors are still alive today, and four of them were well enough to speak to Alex, who was able to piece together their stories of courage and humanity.
(Photo: A group of unidentified children photographed just after liberation by the Soviet Red Army from Oswiecim or Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp, 27 January, 1945. Credit: AP/CAF pap)
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Programme - Lost Children of the Holocaust
Duration: 49:29
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Lost Children - How Our Search Began
Duration: 02:12
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Jacob's Story
Duration: 02:25
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Gunter's Story
Duration: 02:10
Broadcasts
- Wed 6 May 2015 21:05GMT91热爆 World Service Online
- Sat 9 May 2015 18:05GMT91热爆 World Service Online
- Sun 10 May 2015 11:05GMT91热爆 World Service Online
- Wed 13 May 2015 08:05GMT91热爆 World Service Online
- Sat 22 Aug 2015 22:06GMT91热爆 World Service except East and Southern Africa
- Sun 23 Aug 2015 01:06GMT91热爆 World Service East Asia
- Sun 23 Aug 2015 02:06GMT91热爆 World Service West and Central Africa & East and Southern Africa only
- Sun 23 Aug 2015 03:06GMT91热爆 World Service except East and Southern Africa, East Asia & West and Central Africa
- Sun 23 Aug 2015 13:06GMT91热爆 World Service East and Southern Africa
- Wed 26 Aug 2015 08:06GMT91热爆 World Service
- Thu 27 Aug 2015 01:06GMT91热爆 World Service Australasia
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