He had reason to believe, from listening to my talk and matching the details with those from his family folklore, that his great-grandmother BERTA SCHÖNEWALD, may be been on that same deportation train on 22nd March 1942, heading to her death in Sobibor death camp. Filled with great feats of endurance and extraordinary heroism, Escaping Hitler brings to life those who ran the escape routes and sheltered the escapees. This expansion of national socialism resulted in both Jewish and non-Jewish Austrians leaving the country. The next peak in emigration followed the “Kristallnacht”, or November pogrom, which raged through the whole of Germany during the night of 10 November 1938.

Today, 18th October 2021, I visited the headstone of Joe and his wife Jean, set in the peaceful beauty of Earlham Cemetery in Norwich. Actually, during the war it was near the town of Sagan in Lower Silesia in then Germany (which is now Zagan Poland). Andree de Jongh risked her life to smuggle men through occupied France, survived being sent to two concentration camps, and has been described by MI9 as 'the greatest of our war-time agents'. These were the direct consequence of specific developments, such as the above-mentioned boycotts of 1933.He is best known for his Great Escapes series on BBC2, but has presented series for Channel 4, Channel 5, the History Channel, and National Geographic. Instead of wallowing in misery and becoming embittered by his experiences, he embraced life and love.

Escaping Hitler features spies and traitors, extraordinary heroism from those who ran the escape routes and offered shelter to escapees, and great feats of endurance. She earned a BA in English as a Second Language from the Universidad de Chile and an MA in Latin American and Spanish Literature from the University of Washington, Seattle.The appointment of Adolf Hitler as the German Chancellor on 30 January 1933 resulted in a climax following a lengthy period of political unrest in Germany.