The Yellow Star
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As Nazi Germany occupies Hungary and begins deporting Jewish communities, Franz must do everything he can to protect his family. NOTE: Audio will soon be updated to "Buchenwald will be liberated [in] just three months" rather than "one month" to reflect greater accuracy. For more information about this episode, please see the sources below. Yellow Star Houses One House in Budapest, 1944-1945: A Personal History by Professor Árpád von Klimó Yellow Star Houses and Signs - Photographs Yellow Star Houses - “No Jews Live Here” Deportations in Hungary Deportations, Protective Passports, and Underground Movements - Yad Vashem The Security Police (SiPo) - USHMM Budapest - USHMM Budapest Deportations - Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Fred Wander, The Seventh Wall Liberation of Ohrdruf and Buchenwald - USHMM Evolution of Hungarian World News Intro 1938-1944 (Magyar Világhíradó) “Judenfrei” - The Holocaust Explained “Judenfrei” Map and the Einsatzgruppen - USHMM The Siege of Budapest The Siege of Budapest Map The Siege of Budapest - UCLA Asia Pacific Center  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 https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/en/history/flossenbuerg Flossenburg Subcamp System - Project Muse Flossenburg - USHMM See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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