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3 shares Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.” Left: Chaim Herszman in Germany in 1946, Right: John Carr, author of Escape From the Ghetto, the story of his father s audacious escape from the Nazis. (Courtesy John Carr) LONDON It was the moment that undoubtedly saved Chaim Herszman’s life. In February 1940, the 13-year-old stabbed and fatally wounded a Nazi guard in the Lodz Ghetto who he believed was about to shoot his younger brother. Herszman fled the ghetto, leaving behind a family he would never see again and commenced an epic three-year-journey across Nazi-occupied Europe which eventually took him to the safety of Britain. Over its course, he assumed multiple identities, stowed away on a German troop train and, while being sheltered in the heart of the Third Reich by a member of the Wehrmacht, wandered the streets of Berlin dressed in a Hitler Youth unifo

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