Synopsis
Robert Rinder meets Leon Rytz, the last surviving prisoner at Treblinka extermination camp.
- Programme: My Family, The Holocaust and Me
- Series: 1
- Episode: 2
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2020
- History | World War II, 1939-45 | World War II | Life in occupied Europe
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