<description>&lt;p&gt;The Czeisler's make their way back to Post War Europe in an attempt to find a way to the America in the early days of the Cold War. However, It might not be as simple as they might think.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener"&gt;omnystudio.com/listener&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information.&lt;/p&gt;
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The Czeisler's make their way back to Post War Europe in an attempt to find a way to the America in the early days of the Cold War. However, It might not be as simple as they might think.&nbsp;See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Welcome to the Show

<description>&lt;p&gt;Season 2 Picks up where we left off. Franz finds himself in the newly established State of Israel. But, is this tiny Nation big enough for Franz's big ambitions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener"&gt;omnystudio.com/listener&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information.&lt;/p&gt;
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Season 2 Picks up where we left off. Franz finds himself in the newly established State of Israel. But, is this tiny Nation big enough for Franz's big ambitions?See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

The Ringmaster

<description>&lt;p&gt;Catherine and Sarah sit down to talk about experiences creating season 1 and a look forward into season 2&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener"&gt;omnystudio.com/listener&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information.&lt;/p&gt;
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Catherine and Sarah sit down to talk about experiences creating season 1 and a look forward into season 2See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Bonus

<description>&lt;p&gt;First part finale: Soviet occupation creates new and different dangers for Franz and his family as his state of mind moves from survival to escape. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;hr&gt; &lt;p&gt;For more information about this episode, please see the sources below.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1990/01/14/buying-romanias-jews/6b7fe6eb-7fd6-4d0a-9264-92f008926cd9/"&gt;“Buying Romania’s Jews” - The Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538140741/The-Ransom-of-the-Jews-The-Story-of-the-Extraordinary-Secret-Bargain-Between-Romania-and-Israel-Second-Edition"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener"&gt;omnystudio.com/listener&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information.&lt;/p&gt;
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First part finale: Soviet occupation creates new and different dangers for Franz and his family as his state of mind moves from survival to escape.  <hr> For more information about this episode, please see the sources below. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1990/01/14/buying-romanias-jews/6b7fe6eb-7fd6-4d0a-9264-92f008926cd9/">“Buying Romania’s Jews” - The Washington Post</a> <a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538140741/The-Ransom-of-the-Jews-The-Story-of-the-Extraordinary-Secret-Bargain-Between-Romania-and-Israel-Second-Edition">The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel </a>  See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Act One Ends

<description>&lt;p&gt;As Nazi Germany occupies Hungary and begins deporting Jewish communities, Franz must do everything he can to protect his family.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;hr&gt; &lt;p&gt;NOTE: Audio will soon be updated to "Buchenwald will be liberated [in] just three months" rather than "one month" to reflect greater accuracy.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;hr&gt; &lt;p&gt;For more information about this episode, please see the sources below.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yellow Star Houses&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://history.catholic.edu/news-events/2021/08/one-house-in-budapest,-1944-1945.html"&gt;One House in Budapest, 1944-1945: A Personal History by Professor Árpád von Klimó&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.yellowstarhouses.org/#overlay=historical_background/photos"&gt;Yellow Star Houses and Signs - Photographs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.yellowstarhouses.org/#overlay=historical_background/decrees"&gt;Yellow Star Houses - “No Jews Live Here”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deportations in Hungary&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206089.pdf"&gt;Deportations, Protective Passports, and Underground Movements - Yad Vashem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-security-police-sipo"&gt;The Security Police (SiPo) - USHMM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/budapest"&gt;Budapest - USHMM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206089.pdf"&gt;Budapest Deportations - Yad Vashem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945&lt;/em&gt;, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Fred Wander, &lt;em&gt;The Seventh Wall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/liberation-of-ohrdruf"&gt;Liberation of Ohrdruf and Buchenwald - USHMM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Esp6ikwDc"&gt;Evolution of Hungarian World News Intro 1938-1944 (Magyar Világhíradó)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/judenfrei/"&gt;“Judenfrei” - The Holocaust Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/artifact/map-titled-jewish-executions-carried-out-by-einsatzgruppen-a"&gt;“Judenfrei” Map and the Einsatzgruppen - USHMM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Siege of Budapest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://visualisations.ehri-project.eu/neatline/show/arrowcrossmassacres1"&gt;The Siege of Budapest Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article/3793"&gt;The Siege of Budapest - UCLA Asia Pacific Center &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 31 March 1944 - &lt;em&gt;Hungarian Jews Herded by Gestapo&lt;/em&gt; - Newspapers.com&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Buffalo Jewish Review (Buffalo, New York) 23 June 1944 - &lt;em&gt;Hungary Adopts Nazi Anti-Jewish Policy&lt;/em&gt; - Newspapers.com&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Flossenburg&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/en/history/flossenbuerg"&gt;https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/en/history/flossenbuerg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/oa_monograph/chapter/3209403"&gt;Flossenburg Subcamp System - Project Muse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/flossenbuerg"&gt;Flossenburg - USHMM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener"&gt;omnystudio.com/listener&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information.&lt;/p&gt;
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As Nazi Germany occupies Hungary and begins deporting Jewish communities, Franz must do everything he can to protect his family. <hr> NOTE: Audio will soon be updated to "Buchenwald will be liberated [in] just three months" rather than "one month" to reflect greater accuracy. <hr> For more information about this episode, please see the sources below. Yellow Star Houses <a href="https://history.catholic.edu/news-events/2021/08/one-house-in-budapest,-1944-1945.html">One House in Budapest, 1944-1945: A Personal History by Professor Árpád von Klimó</a> <a href="https://www.yellowstarhouses.org/#overlay=historical_background/photos">Yellow Star Houses and Signs - Photographs</a> <a href="https://www.yellowstarhouses.org/#overlay=historical_background/decrees">Yellow Star Houses - “No Jews Live Here”</a> Deportations in Hungary <a href="https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206089.pdf">Deportations, Protective Passports, and Underground Movements - Yad Vashem</a> <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-security-police-sipo">The Security Police (SiPo) - USHMM</a> <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/budapest">Budapest - USHMM</a> <a href="https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206089.pdf">Budapest Deportations - Yad Vashem</a> Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Fred Wander, The Seventh Wall <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/liberation-of-ohrdruf">Liberation of Ohrdruf and Buchenwald - USHMM</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Esp6ikwDc">Evolution of Hungarian World News Intro 1938-1944 (Magyar Világhíradó)</a> <a href="https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/judenfrei/">“Judenfrei” - The Holocaust Explained</a> <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/artifact/map-titled-jewish-executions-carried-out-by-einsatzgruppen-a">“Judenfrei” Map and the Einsatzgruppen - USHMM</a> The Siege of Budapest <a href="https://visualisations.ehri-project.eu/neatline/show/arrowcrossmassacres1">The Siege of Budapest Map</a> <a href="https://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article/3793">The Siege of Budapest - UCLA Asia Pacific Center </a> The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 31 March 1944 - Hungarian Jews Herded by Gestapo - Newspapers.com Buffalo Jewish Review (Buffalo, New York) 23 June 1944 - Hungary Adopts Nazi Anti-Jewish Policy - Newspapers.com Flossenburg <a href="https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/en/history/flossenbuerg">https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/en/history/flossenbuerg</a> <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/oa_monograph/chapter/3209403">Flossenburg Subcamp System - Project Muse</a> <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/flossenbuerg">Flossenburg - USHMM</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

The Yellow Star

The captivating true story about a man who used his illusions to survive and escape Nazi occupied Europe only to become one of the Greatest Showmen the world had ever seen.

Tihany's Illusion: The Search for Franz Czeisler

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