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This essay aims at probing into Kim Hines’ position on the issue of the uniqueness of the Holocaust through the analysis of the contrapuntal structure and the songs-within-the-play in Home on the Mornin’ Train. As for the contrapuntal structure, the play dramatizes two separate escape stories, especially the underground movement in Europe in 1939 and the Underground Railroad in America in 1839 in each scene. As for the songs-within-the play, 6 songs reinforce the theme of the play, that is escape from the political oppression/ persecution to freedom. Besides, some lines of Baruch and Karl reveal the universality of the Holocaust. Some similarities between the two stories are that American slavery and European Nazi ideology were based on racism, that there were some supporters who tried to save the fugitives, and that nothing could defeat the will to escape from oppression/persecution to freedom. In conclusion, the play dramatizes the underground movement in Europe as an extension of the Underground Railroad.