Introduction

Dan talks with historian jeremy dromfeld about an astonishingly true story of horror, love and impossible survival. In 19 39, gustav kleinman, a jewish upholsterer in vienna, was arrested by the nartzes along with his 16 year old son, fritz. They helped build buchenwold, young fritz learning construction skills that would help preserve him from extermination in the coming years. When the 50-year-old gustaf was transferred to auschwitz, as we know, a certain death sentence, he did as his father wrote: "The boy is my greatest joy"