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- Title
A Child in Time.
- Authors
Williams, Althea
- Abstract
The article reports on the April 19, 1943 efforts by Belgian students and resistance activists Youra Livschitz, Robert Maistriau and Jean Frankelmon to stop a train leaving Mechelen, Belgium loaded with 1,631 people bound for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. They created a makeshift warning light which caused the train to stop, and with only two pairs of pliers and a pistol, managed to offer over two-hundred Jews a chance to escape. It focuses particularly on the account of Holocaust survivor, 11-year old Simon Gronowski, who was thrown from the train by his mother and made his way to safety.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; WORLD War II resistance movements; GRONOWSKI, Simon; HOLOCAUST survivors; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945; LIVSCHITZ, Youra; MAISTRIAU, Robert; FRANKELMON, Jean; CONCENTRATION camp escapes; ESCAPES
- Publication
History Today, 2013, Vol 63, Issue 4, p6
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article