Tag Archives: Matt Rozell

Our February 29 front page

South High Marathon Dance – 28 hours, back at the school & fully open to public for first time since 2020 Matt Rozell movie debut. Mean Max does darts. Veterinary practice on the grow. Uncommon Grounds progresses with new Qby. location. Qby. boys win at states. Amorak in HF: Free music lessons for kids; Strand concert is Sunday. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts &

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Matt Rozell: The view from Normandy

By Matt Rozell, Special to The Chronicle

The final leg of our European trip to make a documentary about my book A Train to Magdeburg — the events depicted in a famous scene of Jewish survivors rescued by American soldiers, and all that transpired since I discovered the photo — took us from Germany to Normandy, France, to Omaha Beach and to the American Cemetery and Memorial located in Colleville-sur-Mer.…

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Our May 26 front page

Memorial Day Issue Parades & ceremonies return. Gas tax caps save some cents. Car crashed through downtown’s hub. Islamic Center buys former GF Christian Science bldg. Valedictorians! Matt Rozell, part 3 of WW2 series. Final map: SGF gets Tonko, GF gets Stefanik in redistricting. South Glens Falls Prom pics. Twiddle, more at Memorial Meltdown, Lake George. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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Matt Rozell in Germany: Found train site, full circle with Johanna

By Matthew Rozell, Special to The Chronicle

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series, following Hudson Falls historian and retired teacher Matt Rozell’s documentary project on his best-selling book A Train from Magdeburg, about American solders’ liberation of Jewish Holocaust surviors in 1945.

On April 12, film director Mike Edwards and I drove in our rented BMW from near Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to the city of Magdeburg …

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Matt Rozell in Germany, as film is made about the WW2 rescue of ‘A Train Near Magdeburg,’ that his book revealed

By Matthew Rozell, Special to The Chronicle

Editor’s note: First of a 3-part series.

Last month, I finally got to travel to historical sites in Germany and France where events that occurred 16 years before I was born helped to shape my adult life — experiences chronicled in my 2016 book, A Train Near Magdeburg.

It was revelatory on many levels.

Film director Michael Edwards of Columbus, Ohio, and his …

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