PODCATS. Incredible destinies: Ange Alvarez, the escapee from the ghost train

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In this new episode of Incredible Destinies, Catherine Unac tells you the incredible story of Ange Alvarez, the escapee from the ghost train. This Gardois was the first prisoner to successfully escape from this death convoy that left Toulouse in the summer of 1944 and took nearly 800 Jews and resistance fighters to Dachau.

You have to be in the grip of despair to attempt the impossible. That's what Ange Alvarez did. Driven by courage or shaken by unconsciousness, he was the first prisoner to escape from the “ghost train”, one of the last convoys of death.

He was named this because he kept appearing and disappearing due to Allied bombings and sabotage by the Resistance, before arriving, after 57 terrible days, at the Dachau concentration camp.