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Escaping a Nazi train to Auschwitz
The story of a boy who escaped a Nazi death train, plus one of the world's most prolific serial killers - and America's first black presidential candidate.
The story of a boy who escaped a Nazi death train to Auschwitz, a B52 bomber loaded with nuclear bombs crashes in Greenland, one of the world's most prolific serial killers - Harold Shipman or 'Dr Death' - and America's first black presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm.
(Photo: Simon Gronowski with his parents. Credit: Private collection)
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BBC World Service Online
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- Sun 1 Feb 201502:05GMTBBC World Service Online
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