A Train Near Magdeburg

The Audiobook is Now Available!

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“I cannot believe, today, that the world almost ignored those people and what was happening. How could we have all stood by and have let that happen? They do not owe us anything. We owe them, for what we allowed to happen to them!”

― SGT. CARROL S. WALSH, US ARMY LIBERATOR

On April 13th, 1945, three weeks before the end of WWII in Europe, two tank commanders of the 743rd Tank Battalion of the US Army overran a train transport near Magdeburg, Germany, filled with 2500 Jewish concentration camp victims. This set into motion a chain of events that would culminate in survivors and liberators being reunited six decades later by a dedicated educator, reflecting on what happened.

As we embark on the 75^th Anniversary of Liberation, and begin our “90-Day Countdown” to film at the authentic sites near Magdeburg, Germany, and Bergen-Belsen this April, we are happy to announce the release of the AUDIOBOOK to supplement our mission to STAND UP TO the growing scourge of antisemitism, highlighting the example of our World War II American young men as Defenders of democracy, Protectors of the oppressed, and, decades later, as Confronters of Jew-hatred and Holocaust denial.

~This message is central to Matthew Rozell’s book, A TRAIN NEAR MAGDEBURG, which has reached over 30,000 readers. We are reaching our funding goal for the Germany trip, but it is CRUCIAL for our mission to reach WIDER AUDIENCES with THE FILM to be completed in 2020, upon our return from Germany. Our film will remind viewers that what one person does, matters, and that every person has a moral obligation to confront injustice; viewers will be empowered to reflect on the personal responsibility to pass on what these soldiers did, and more importantly, why they did it—an implicit appeal to a call to action.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN 2020!

What Readers Have Said…

~“Rozell’s life work is monumentally critical for generations of Americans who might otherwise fail to comprehend the disastrous nature of the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler. His research and the nature of his networking with Holocaust survivors is simply genius. His greatest success is in his ability to bring together new American generations with members of wartime German society who lived the ghastly ordeal.”

~“Mr. Rozell is a credit to those of us who teach by connecting the life experiences of wartime Europeans to our American youth who absolutely MUST never forget how the citizens of the 20th Century allowed the entire planet to be drawn into man’s most horrible conflict. It is our turn and their turn to defy and actively oppose those who allow ideologies to overwhelm the societies of the world.”

~“Everyone should read this book, detailing the amazing bond that formed between Holocaust survivors likely on their way to death in one last concentration camp as WWII was about to end and a small number of American soldiers that happened upon the stopped train and liberated the victims. The lifelong friendships that resulted between the survivors and their liberators is a testament to compassion and goodness.”

~“It is amazing that the author is not Jewish but a ‘reluctant’ history teacher who ultimately becomes a Holocaust scholar. This is a great book.”

~“A Must-Read. I could not put this book down. A real tribute to the survivors and liberators. Highly recommended for anyone taking or teaching Holocaust History. Suited for high school / college / adult education settings. I strongly urge Hebrew Schools, Synagogues, Temples order this book for their library as well; Have this required reading and contact the author for speaking engagements!”

~”What healing this has given the survivors and military men.”

~A Train Near Magdeburg: Youth Edition~also just released!