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American soldier liberator Frank Towers meets the girl he saved, Ariela Rojek, at my high school where I brought them together, 66 years later.

A season of miracles.

There are many miracles at work around us, but while we are busy living our lives, we may not even be aware. There may even be times when all seems lost, or hopeless, or pointless, when really the stage is being set for a larger manifestation of good in the world.

That's what happened, to me.

Slogging through some of my lowest days, unknowingly setting off an extraordinary confluence of events, I became the catalyst in the miracle of reuniting nearly 300 child survivors of the Holocaust with the actual American soldiers who saved them from a death train in Nazi Germany. And two generations after that fateful April day in 1945, they got to meet each other again over a dozen times—on three different continents—in triumphant reunions that proved Hitler wrong.

Because of me. An ordinary high school history teacher.
Imagine that.

I spent 15 years uncovering the real stories behind the iconic photographs that the soldiers showed me, recording what happened through the eyes of the survivors and the Americans who fought the Nazi beast—bringing the past to life again, and tripping the wires of the cosmos in the process.

A Train Near Magdeburg is my second work, a timely book that will make you proud to be an American, and a companion piece to my first, The Things Our Fathers Saw.

Pick up personalized copies for yourself or a special person at my website, or get them directly at Amazon.com.

Or in this season of miracles, take the time to think about the goodness manifested in the world by the young men and women who saved it, in a time not so long ago.

"As an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker, I am always looking for good stories; stories that move the heart as well as the mind. This book does that in spades. From the first page to the last it rivets you to the passion of the author's journey and to the story of the people of whom he writes about.

This story is a shining example of the good that people can do to help their fellow man. It is a story of a man who has followed his heart and mind to accomplish great things for others." —Michael J. Edwards, Searching For Augusta (PBS)

"As a historian with the National WWII Museum, I receive a lot of books... but this one is different. Mr. Rozell weaves the experiences of more than thirty veterans, some barely out of their teens, into a coherent story of our war in the Pacific. The best of the American character is brought out in these stories. They fought, not so much against the enemy, but rather for the guys next to them, and they brought that spirit back home with them.Young people should not see them only as heroes but as models of what they can become—men who set aside their differences to stand beside each other as Americans."—Nesmuck

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