Tihany's Illusion: The Search for Franz CzeislerTihany's Illusion: The Search for Franz Czeisler

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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

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