Another Czech escapee. after being wounded by an exploding mine when climbing a barbed wire entanglement. swam the Morava River under Communist fire and arrived safely on the Austrian side on December 14. 1952. A Hungarian couple hid for 4 days in an empty wine vat in a sealed boxcar from Budapest to Switzerland on March 19. 1952. A Hungarian farmer. his wife. and three small children swam a river and fled across Hungary to reach Austria A university student and his fiance were rescued by a West German border patrol just as they were about to be taken by the Communist border guards. A young foundry worker and his wife and small child crossed the HungarianAustrian border February 8. 1953. after evading dog patrols. passing over mined areas. and cutting through barbed wire barriers. These people had courage.
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