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World Service,2 mins

Lost Children - How Our Search Began

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BBC journalist, Alex Last explains how he tracked down child survivors of the Holocaust who were left stranded in Europe without family. Alex speaks to four of the original 12 mentioned in a BBC appeal broadcast 70 years ago - part of which you can hear on this tape. This is a clip from Lost Children of the Holocaust, and explains how the story of the search began. (Photo: The railway track leading away from the Auschwitz II Birkenau concentration camp, Poland. The 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet soldiers took place on January 27, 2015.) (Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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