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

As Nazi Germany occupies Hungary and begins deporting Jewish communities, Franz must do everything he can to protect his family.
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NOTE: Audio will soon be updated to "Buchenwald will be liberated [in] just three months" rather than "one month" to reflect greater accuracy.
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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>

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.

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

Tihany's Illusion: The Search for Franz Czeisler.



Produced by: Joey Gurwin at Oranjudio.

Written By: Sarah Hume and Joey Gurwin

Presented By:Sarah Hume 

Special thanks: Wessler Media.

Tihany's Illusion: The Search for Franz Czeisler.
 
Produced by: <a href="https://www.oranjudio.com/">Joey Gurwin at Oranjudio.</a>
Written By: Sarah Hume and Joey Gurwin
Presented By:Sarah Hume 
Special thanks: <a href="https://www.wesslermedia.com/">Wessler Media.</a>

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