Escape from Nazis got Olly his Welsh cap

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW
The Six Nations has never been short on journeys of a miraculous nature but this one might just trump them all, from its murderous start to its thunderous finish.
It began at the height of the Second World War in the Slovakian town of Zilina with the Nazis herding the Jewish population into trains taking them to a place in Poland called Auschwitz.
Josef Kohn’s relatives perished there and this story, like millions of others told down the years, would have ended in 1942 had the young Dr Kohn not escaped from another concentration camp. He made it all the way...

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