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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit
Episode: The Boy Who Survived Auschwitz
Description: Thomas Geve was just 15 years old when he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April 1945. It was the third concentration camp he had survived. During the 22 months he was imprisoned, he was forced to observe first-hand the inhumane world of Nazi concentration camps. On his eventual release, Thomas felt compelled to capture daily life in the death camps in more than eighty profoundly moving drawings. He detailed this dark period of history with remarkable accuracy.Despite the unspeakable events he experienced, Thomas decided to become an active witness and tell the truth about life in...