I don’t often listen to podcasts.

“Covering Their Tracks” will be an exception.

It tells the story of Leo Bretholz, who escaped from a train taking him to a Nazi death camp.

I learned about the podcast today from Raphael Prober, one of the lawyer/lobbyists I worked with on this issue.

My response to him follows:

Rafi,

It continues to be one of the greatest honors of my legislative career that you and Aaron [Greenfield] asked me to be the sponsor of the bill imposing responsibility on the French Railroad for its role in transporting to their death Jews and members of other minorities despised by the Nazis.

But not Leo Bretholz.  A real hero.

Several months after our bill passed, I visited Nuremberg, site of the Nazi war crimes trial.  At the end of a day of touring, my guide said, “You have wanted to come here for quite some time.”

“Only since I worked on this legislation this past winter,” I replied.

But I soon realized that I had wanted to come to Nuremberg ever since my Constitutional Law class taught by Telford Taylor, as you know, a chief prosecutor at Nuremberg.

I will listen to the podcast later today.  https://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/covering-their-tracks

Sandy