Hi there, listeners. Brian Seymour here we wanted to share with you a powerful new podcast that some of our Lady Vanishes team have been involved with. The four part series tells the incredible life story of one of Australia's oldest living survivors of Auschwitz.
In his own words, the Holocaust remains one of the darkest chapters in human history. Adolf Hitler's concentration camps and extermination centers redefined evil. Auschwitz was the most deadly, the site of the largest single mass murder the world has ever witnessed. An estimated one point three million people were sent to the camp, more than one point one million died, and of those prisoners who made it out, tens of thousands of them were too weak or sick to live
more than a few days, weeks or months. Today, very few are still alive. The last survivors and their stories are now scattered across the globe. So when I found out one of those stories was waiting to be told just down the road from my home here in Australia, I knew I needed to meet this ninety eight year old for myself. Just record on that cool what you're about to hear. Is the unbelievable journey of a boy from Holland who survived the horrors of the Holocaust to
become a hockey legend. On the ice. He was known as the Flying Dutchman, and no death row or death camp could click his wings.
I was given a life and I will defend the best.
Like her voices, and now, as he fights his final battle against a slow and silent killer, David Dickie Gruntman wants you to hear his words in the hope humanity may finally learn from its evil past.
The Flying Dutchman is out now wherever you find your podcasts.