Esther Wertiger
Covering Their Tracks
Documentarian Matthew Slutsky brings us 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.
Credits:Matthew Slutsky
Esther Wertiger
Covering Their TracksEpisode 5: Leap Into DarknessMourning our losses, and celebrating our victories February 14, 2024- Covering Their TracksEpisode 4: First AlliesThe debate over the SNCF’s obligation to apologize and offer reparations becomes a diplomatic issue February 7, 2024
- Covering Their TracksEpisode 3: The HearingWe meet a second person connected to the SNCF deportations, Rosette Goldstein, and the fight for justice gets politicalJanuary 31, 2024
- Covering Their TracksEpisode 2: Convoy #42A young Leo Bretholz is boarded onto a cattle car headed toward Auschwitz, and after a daring escape, begins the long journey toward safety, and sharing his story in America
- Covering Their TracksEpisode 1: Covering Their TracksDuring the Holocaust, France’s National Railway (SNCF) transported Jews toward concentration camps. We examine the beginnings of the fight for justice.