The falklands. These images shot in secret tell of an unusual story of courage. Taken near the end of the Second World War they show czech citizens trying to free people from the train prisoners from a nazi concentration camp. One of the survivors don its a big r. H. Would later recall conditions in the railway cars. There were so many of us that we had to stand packed together all night. Planes were flying over us dropping bombs. We had no idea what was going to happen to us. Some said we were going to be used as human shields in the fight against the liberators. We hardly cared anymore and began to envy those whod been shot because theyd finally found peace. With the allies approaching the nazis had begun liquidating concentration camps many prisoners were sent on death marches all transported by rail train nine four eight zero three was a man of many such transports but when it reached czech soil things took a very different turn and since. Some years ago during our research we disc
about it i can still remember it as though it were yesterday that it would all stop . leopold hale also heard about the train full of people who were on the brink of starvation and brought food to the railway embankment. when he arrived with piles of soup made by his mother the situation was nowhere near as calm as it appears on this clan to stand photo. at that he said stop the b.s. here although as i stood there the prisoners who had gotten out of the wagons lay down on the ground. they lowered their bowls on strings from above to get something sweet from us down below. they given the heads were right there. for