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Film effort for Matt Rozell’s WW2 ‘Train’ rescue story

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

An effort has begun to turn Matt Rozell’s book A Train Near Mageburg into a documentary that aims to air in 2020 on PBS.

The story seems made for film: In April 1945 in the closing days of World War II, American soldiers chasing German forces come upon a train abandoned on its way to a concentration camp. Trapped inside, left to perish, are …

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