Covering Their Tracks

Oct 15 2024 6 ep. 80
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The extraordinary story of a young man’s escape from a moving train bound for the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, and his fight to hold the French national rail company, the SNCF, accountable for their actions as they later bid for lucrative high-speed rail contracts in the United States.

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Introducing Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair

Oct 15 2024 14 mins  
Dreyfus: A Very Modern Affair is an October 7th story, but one that begins not in 2023, but in October of 1894 with the arrest of French military officer Alfred Dreyfus, who also happened to be a Jew. The implications of his framing, arrest, incarceration and the fallout of his eventual exoneration reverberate today. Over this five-episode series, we examine how these events unfold

Covering Their Tracks: Leap Into Darkness

Feb 13 2024 29 mins  
The team reels after Leo’s death, but is more motivated than ever. The French finally admit culpability at the highest levels, and the team discusses how far they have come, and how they’ve honored the work Leo began. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Covering Their Tracks: First Allies

Feb 06 2024 24 mins  
Now that multiple states and countries are involved with the SNCF’s past narrative and present political aspirations, lobbyists, politicians and diplomats become involved. As negotiations reach a fever-pitch, Leo’s time to share his story begins to run out. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Covering Their Tracks: The Hearing

Jan 30 2024 27 mins  
The debate over the SNCF’s complicity expands to modern day, when the rail company attempts to bid on high speed rail in Leo Bretholz’s backyard. We also meet Rosette Goldstein, whose father was transported by the SNCF to his eventual death. Through retelling their stories, lobbyists, lawyers, and politicians begin to act. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcast

Covering Their Tracks: Convoy #42

Jan 24 2024 29 mins  
After running from Nazi occupation for three years, Leo Bretholz is forced onto a SNCF cattle car bound for Auschwitz. He manages a daring escape just miles from the German border, but his journey is long from over. Eventually, he settles in America, and begins to open up about his story. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Covering Their Tracks

Jan 24 2024 33 mins  
During the Holocaust, France’s National Railway (SNCF) transported Jews toward concentration camps. The SNCF went to great pains to obscure that narrative, but one survivor who leapt from a train headed toward Auschwitz never forgot, and begins to seek justice. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.