As Nazi Germany occupies Hungary and begins deporting Jewish communities, Franz must do everything he can to protect his family.
NOTE: Audio will soon be updated to "Buchenwald will be liberated [in] just three months" rather than "one month" to reflect greater accuracy.
For more information about this episode, please see the sources below.
Yellow Star Houses
One House in Budapest, 1944-1945: A Personal History by Professor Árpád von Klimó
Yellow Star Houses and Signs - Photographs
Yellow Star Houses - “No Jews Live Here”
Deportations in Hungary
Deportations, Protective Passports, and Underground Movements - Yad Vashem
The Security Police (SiPo) - USHMM
Budapest Deportations - Yad Vashem
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Fred Wander, The Seventh Wall
Liberation of Ohrdruf and Buchenwald - USHMM
Evolution of Hungarian World News Intro 1938-1944 (Magyar Világhíradó)
“Judenfrei” - The Holocaust Explained
“Judenfrei” Map and the Einsatzgruppen - USHMM
The Siege of Budapest
The Siege of Budapest - UCLA Asia Pacific Center
The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 31 March 1944 - Hungarian Jews Herded by Gestapo - Newspapers.com
Buffalo Jewish Review (Buffalo, New York) 23 June 1944 - Hungary Adopts Nazi Anti-Jewish Policy - Newspapers.com
Flossenburg
https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/en/history/flossenbuerg
Flossenburg Subcamp System - Project Muse
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