Hiding in Plain Sight: Surviving the Holocaust - a podcast by New Media UFM

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In the Holocaust between five to six million Jewish were killed, and just a few survived. Allan J. Hall shares the anecdotes written in his book, Hiding in plain sight, which narrates how he and his family survived the Holocaust in Poland during the war (1939-1945).

Hall mentions he was raised in Cracow, Poland, and his first memory about the war was seeing his parents fighting for the decision if they should leave or not their home. They could escape just because his father knew german and read about the war in the newspaper. His family escaped Cracow without knowing if they were going to find a safe place. Then achieved to be transported from a Nazi-controlled zone where Jewish were taken to ghettos, to a Soviet one that was in non-aggression treaty, extending their lives for another 20 months while this agreement was in force.

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