Latest An unbroken chain Podcast Episodes

An Unbroken Chain - Part Twelve

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - November 20, 2007 18:10 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Epilogue Part 2 and Acknowledgements: Finally, Henry is back in Berlin only to discover the family’s apartment has been given to Nazi party loyalists. He reunites with some family and tried to adjust to his freedom. We learn the details of Henry’s emigration to the United States and the splendid...

An Unbroken Chain - Part Eleven

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - November 20, 2007 18:07 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Epilogue Part 1: Henry is liberated and left wondering who is left in his family. There was no mode of transportation available as it nearly all forms were destroyed in the war. He runs into trouble with Soviets on his attempt to return to Berlin including forced labor again.

An Unbroken Chain - Part Ten

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - November 12, 2007 14:10 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Chapter 15: This episode is the 18th Link in the Unbroken Chain. The American troops are nearby as heard through machine gun fire and bombs. But on April 20, 1945, the Nazis order all remaining prisoners out of the barracks. Henry was put on a death march with all his fellow inmates. American l...

An Unbroken Chain - Part Nine

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - November 12, 2007 14:03 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Chapters 12, 13, 14: Henry puts his life in the hands of an SS Doctor. He describes the harrowing ordeal of surgery - and the conditions of "recovery". A non-Jewish political prisoner befriends Henry and saves him from another death camp. For the first time they hear the bombings from the fro...

An Unbroken Chain - Part Eight

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - November 05, 2007 12:43 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Chapters 9, 10, 11: This episode deals with four more links in the events that helped Henry Oertelt survive the Nazi Holocaust. Henry’s optimism and profession as a fine furniture designer helped him survive. He was now sent to another death camp, Flossenburg in Bavaria. The camp was horribl...

An Unbroken Chain - Part Seven

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - November 05, 2007 12:42 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Chapter 7 and 8: Henry’s ability to work certainly helped save his life. His slight stature and youth also contributed. The brothers are sent to yet another concentration camp, Golleschau. You hear about the value and heartache of just one piece of bread, and Henry’s new job to create a custom ...

An Unbroken Chain - Part Six

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - October 29, 2007 03:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Chapter 5 and 6: Henry describes the devastation of being turned down by the consulate to leave Germany (prior to their imprisonment), but recognizes that the late date (June 1943) for being sent to the death camps helped save his life. Henry and his brother Kurt are sent to Auschwitz in Octob...

An Unbroken Chain - Part Five

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - October 29, 2007 02:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Chapter 4: SS Nazi Guards break down the door to Henry’s family apartment and tell them to prepare to leave. Henry, his brother Kurt and Kurt’s girlfriend Sonja are sent to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia. They were processed and sent to live in horrid conditions. Henry describes the meager fo...

An Unbroken Chain - Part Four

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - October 22, 2007 02:53 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Chapter 3: It’s now 1943, Henry’s mother had been working in a forced labor camp, but she is now imprisoned full-time. There is a terrifying experience with SS Guards hunting down friends while Henry flees and is just feet away from being captured.

An Unbroken Chain - Part Three

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - October 22, 2007 02:17 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Chapter 1 and 2: In this episode, Henry describes working at a weapons factory illegally nearly starting the factory on fire. You’ll also hear how Henry’s skills as a furniture maker were put to use but nearly at the expense of being sent to a place called Auschwitz-Berkinau.

An Unbroken Chain - Part Two

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - October 15, 2007 00:31 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Introduction Continued: The listener is introduced to Henry’s family in Germany and the events that led up to their imprisonment in concentration death camps. Henry describes his teen years and the continual humiliation and intimidation of Jews prior to the start of World War II. You’ll hear abou...

An Unbroken Chain - Part One

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - September 12, 2007 18:17 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Prologue and Introduction: Henry Oertelt describes the reasons why he chose to share his very personal story and why he continues to speak publicly about his survival of the Nazi Holocaust. He was inspired by his children and grandchildren among many others to publish the events that saved his li...

An Unbroken Chain - Intro

An Unbroken Chain - Dr. Henry Oertelt - September 05, 2007 17:42 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Meet Dr. Henry Oertelt.