Auschwitz | Countryfile

Duration: 6'20''

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To coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day John Craven travels to Poland with, Kitty Hart-Moxon, a survivor from Auschwitz to see how the countryside became the last hiding place for many escaping Nazi persecution.

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