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 Hen

An Unbroken Chain - Part Eleven

Nov 20th, 2007 25m 42s

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 Ber

An Unbroken Chain - Part Ten

Nov 12th, 2007 12m 14s

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

An Unbroken Chain - Part Nine

Nov 12th, 2007 14m 25s

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. F

An Unbroken Chain - Part Eight

Nov 5th, 2007 20m 2s

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 dea

An Unbroken Chain - Part Seven

Nov 5th, 2007 21m

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 pi

An Unbroken Chain - Part Six

Oct 29th, 2007 20m 20s

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. Henr

An Unbroken Chain - Part Five

Oct 29th, 2007 42m

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 liv

An Unbroken Chain - Part Four

Oct 22nd, 2007 20m 33s

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 capt

An Unbroken Chain - Part Three

Oct 22nd, 2007 14m 37s

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

An Unbroken Chain - Part Two

Oct 15th, 2007 22m 11s

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

An Unbroken Chain - Part One

Sep 12th, 2007 15m 3s

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 amon