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Please be advised. This episode is set inside the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz.

It includes descriptions of and references to murder, torture, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust.

November 1942, Auschwitz, Nazi-occupied Poland.

Vitold Pelletsky shuffles through the dirty gray slush of the first winter snows.

He moves slowly to conserve his strength.

He feels the weakness throughout his body, which is still recovering from his near fatal typhus infection.

Pelletsky stops walking as he sees another prisoner running towards him.

The prisoner looks well-fed, the telltale sign of a new arrival at the camp.

But there's something about him Pieletsky recognises as if from a previous life.

He squints, trying to identify the face.

Then the name comes to him.

Staniswav Vyajbitsky,

one of the senior leaders of the resistance in Warsaw.

Be told, thank God, I was hoping to find you.

You look better than I imagined.

Pelletsky feels a pang of guilt. Over the past months, the mass industrialized slaughter of Jews at the camp has actually made life better for the other prisoners. Before the Jews

are gassed, all their possessions are confiscated, and other prisoners ordered to sort

through the mountains of food, clothes and other belongings. Inevitably, those prisoners steal some of those

items, and once those goods are smuggled back into the main camp, they become part of a thriving

black market.

Paleski knows that he has only survived in part because of the extra food supply created by thousands who were murdered here every day.

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