Simon Gronowski

this morning (tuesday 27th), 8.50-9.00am, on bbc world service radio (freeview channel 710 or 107)
witness: in 2013 sarah ehrlich interviewed simon gronowski (brussels, 1931)

“In 1943, a group of Belgian Jews escaped from a train bound for the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
In the only incident of its kind, they were helped by members of the Belgian resistance.
Simon Gronowski was just 11 years old when he jumped from the train to safety.”

see also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22188075
see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_the_twentieth_convoy and http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maistriau