I read an article

about the train

that took my great-uncle and my great-aunt

Jeschie and Rachel to Auschwitz:

Convoy 62.

The article said

that some of the prisoners on Convoy 62

escaped from the train

while it was in a tunnel

One of the prisoners was called 

Oscar Handschuh and when he jumped from the train 

he knocked himself out.

After a bit, he came round and headed off 

into the countryside. He arrived at a farm and asked for help. 

The people there were called Mariette and Marcel Médard.

They bandaged his head, gave him clothing 

and food and hid him in an attic. That day, German soldiers came to the farm. They said they were looking for ten Jews 

who had jumped from a train.

Marcel Médard said that there was no one 

in the house.

A long while later, the war ended - and for many years the Handschuh family stayed 

in touch with the Médard family.

Why?

Because Oscar Handschuh knew, and the Médard family knew that if Oscar Handschuh had been found by the 

soldiers that day, he would have been killed, and the Médard family would have been killed. 

All of them.