# Chris Nicola: The Hidden Holocaust Story Beneath Ukraine

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Podcast: [Life’s Tough, Explorers Are TOUGHER!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599)
Published: 2025-12-05T17:00:00+00:00
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In this episode of Life’s Tough, Explorers are Tougher, host Richard Wiese speaks with cave explorer, documentarian and author Chris Nicola, whose discovery in a Ukrainian cave unveiled one of the most extraordinary survival stories of World War II. Chris shares how a lifetime of adventure — from law enforcement to cave diving — led him to stumble upon artifacts in a cave that revealed the hidden lives of 38 Jewish survivors. His investigation uncovered the story of families who evaded Nazi p...

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