Latest Holocaust Podcast Episodes
Thirty Minutes with a 3G: Maya Hyman
3GDC Presents - 30 Minutes with a 3G - April 30, 2024 20:38 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn a new episode, Mark Joseph Stern speaks with Maya Hyman, whose grandparents fled Poland together before World War II to seek refuge in Australia.
Remembering Together: Episode 2 - Amsterdam and the Holocaust, the story of Henriëtte Pimentel
Remembering Together - April 19, 2024 13:00 - 32 minutesIn the second episode of Remembering Together, Deputy Ambassador to the Netherlands Keith Allan visits Amsterdam to learn more about the history and impact of the holocaust in the Dutch capital. As well as the ways people and the community remember this dark chapter in history. In this episode...
Thirty Minutes with a 3G: Marika Van Laan
3GDC Presents - 30 Minutes with a 3G - April 01, 2024 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn a new episode, Mark Joseph Stern speaks with Marika Van Laan about her grandmother's escape from pre-war Berlin and her long, fascinating journey to the United States, where she lived to the age of 100.
Remembering Together: Episode 1 - Camp Westerbork
Remembering Together - March 01, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutesIt has been almost 80 years since the Netherlands was liberated following 5 years of German occupation. During this time, the population was brutally suppressed, jews and other groups were deported and murdered as war raged across Europe. Camp Westerbork was used as a deportation camp by Nazi Ge...
Bonus episode: Interview with 'One Life' director James Hawes
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking - January 01, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsTo mark the release of the Warner Brothers motion picture 'One Life' (starring Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Flynn), Alex Maws sits down with the film's director, James Hawes, to discuss the story of Sir Nicholas Winton and how he went about bringing it to the big screen. Abo...
Chapter 10: Aftermath
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust - November 23, 2023 06:34 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsIn this final chapter of “Remembering Vilna,” several of the survivors whose stories we’ve featured tell of their journeys to safety and new beginnings, even as the traumas they experienced remained ever present.
Chapter 9: Judgment and Revenge
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust - November 15, 2023 20:26 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsAt war’s end, Vilna’s survivors struggle to regain their health, look for missing family members, and search for ways to leave Europe for the United States or Palestine. But a small group join an effort to seek revenge in Nuremberg, where an international tribunal is underway.
Chapter 8: Nazi Defeat
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust - November 09, 2023 06:40 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsJuly 1944. For nearly two weeks, the Nazis and the Soviets fight for every street and block in Vilna. When the smoke clears, Jews hiding in the sewers emerge into daylight while other survivors and Jewish partisans filter back into the devastated city.
Chapter 7: Liquidation
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust - November 02, 2023 20:53 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsWhen the Nazis liquidate the Vilna ghetto, they send thousands of Jews to their deaths or to forced-labor camps. Others escape to the forest to join the partisans. Very few manage to hide. The Nazis also try to eliminate evidence of their efforts to murder Vilna’s Jews.
Chapter 6: The Underground
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust - October 26, 2023 12:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsYoung people in the ghetto organize an underground group with the hope of leading an uprising against the Nazis. They risk their lives to build an arsenal, but when it becomes clear most Jews in the ghetto don’t support them, many escape to the surrounding forest to join the partisans.
Chapter 5: Ghetto Life
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust - October 19, 2023 05:44 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsLife in the Jewish ghetto demands vigilance and adaptation. Families improvise spaces for hiding. Food is smuggled at the risk of execution. And while young people start to organize a resistance, cultural and sporting events prove to be a much needed diversion.
Chapter 4: The Ghetto
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust - October 10, 2023 18:52 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsThey are given minutes to pack. A suitcase, a sheet-wrapped bundle, whatever they can carry. Thousands of the city’s Jews are marched at gunpoint to the newly enclosed Jewish ghettos, where the previous inhabitants have already been murdered.
Chapter 3: Nazi Invasion
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust - October 05, 2023 06:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsWhen Germany attacks the Soviet Union in 1941, the Nazis occupy Vilna and begin imposing their harsh antisemitic rule, banning Jews from sidewalks, requiring the wearing of an identifying yellow star, and worse. “Within just a few days,” Mira Verbin recalls, “they started kidnapping Jews.”
Thirty Minutes with a 3G: Yevette Smith
3GDC Presents - 30 Minutes with a 3G - October 02, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn a new episode, Mark Joseph Stern speaks with Yevette Smith, a 3G whose grandfather took a circuitous path from Europe to Chicago, where he found and married the love of his life.
Chapter 2: In the Shadow of War
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust - September 28, 2023 07:29 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsWith the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the country is split between the Nazi invaders and the Soviet Union. Vilna winds up in the hands of the Soviets, then the Lithuanians, then the Soviets again, who set about seizing property and businesses, and arresting and deporting perce...
Chapter 1: Childhood Memories
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust - September 20, 2023 22:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsRecollections of life before 1939 evoke the rich diversity of Vilna’s thriving Jewish community, including its multiple synagogues and political and social organizations. The impact on daily life of rising antisemitism foreshadows far darker times to come.
Introduction: Remembering Vilna
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust - September 20, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 127 ratings“Those Who Were There” co-producers Nahanni Rous and Eric Marcus introduce a few of the voices that, over the course of 10 episodes, will bring to life the once-vibrant Jewish community of Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania) and chronicle its destruction during World War II.
Thirty Minutes with a 3G: Adam Zimmerman
3GDC Presents - 30 Minutes with a 3G - August 21, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn a new episode, Mark Joseph Stern speaks with Adam Zimmerman, a 3G who teaches a 7th grade Holocaust and Jewish Identity class at Temple Beth Ami.
Ashkenaz 08 – R’ Samson Rafael Hirsch
Journey to Our Past - July 17, 2023 22:23 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsGiven on the train to Hamburg so the volume is a little low.
Ashkenaz 07 – Frankfurt, The Pnei Yehoshua & Baal Hafla’ah
Journey to Our Past - July 17, 2023 22:15 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsGiven on the train to Hamburg so the volume is a little low.
Thirty Minutes with a 3G: Shelley Rood Wernick
3GDC Presents - 30 Minutes with a 3G - July 17, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn a new episode, Mark Joseph Stern speaks with Shelley Rood Wernick, a 3G who serves as Managing Director of the Center on Holocaust Survivor Care and Institute on Aging and Trauma at the Jewish Federations of North America.
Ashkenaz 14 – Closing Remarks
Journey to Our Past - July 14, 2023 22:55 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBeginning in 2017, Eshel Publications has been honored to host a summer trip through Jewish History. The trip is led by Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky, who speaks at each stop, and brings the world of our past to life in the very places where it happened.Eshel Publications is proud to present to you the r...
Ashkenaz 13 – Baal Shem of Michelstadt
Journey to Our Past - July 14, 2023 22:35 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBeginning in 2017, Eshel Publications has been honored to host a summer trip through Jewish History. The trip is led by Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky, who speaks at each stop, and brings the world of our past to life in the very places where it happened.Eshel Publications is proud to present to you the r...
Ashkenaz 12 – Chavos Yair
Journey to Our Past - July 14, 2023 22:24 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBeginning in 2017, Eshel Publications has been honored to host a summer trip through Jewish History. The trip is led by Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky, who speaks at each stop, and brings the world of our past to life in the very places where it happened.Eshel Publications is proud to present to you the r...
Ashkenaz 11 – Kehillos Shum
Journey to Our Past - July 14, 2023 22:13 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBeginning in 2017, Eshel Publications has been honored to host a summer trip through Jewish History. The trip is led by Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky, who speaks at each stop, and brings the world of our past to life in the very places where it happened.Eshel Publications is proud to present to you the r...
Ashkenaz 10 – R’ Nosson Adler
Journey to Our Past - July 14, 2023 21:44 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBeginning in 2017, Eshel Publications has been honored to host a summer trip through Jewish History. The trip is led by Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky, who speaks at each stop, and brings the world of our past to life in the very places where it happened.Eshel Publications is proud to present to you the r...
Ashkenaz 09 – At the Kever of the Stoliner Rebbe (The Yenukah)
Journey to Our Past - July 14, 2023 21:37 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBeginning in 2017, Eshel Publications has been honored to host a summer trip through Jewish History. The trip is led by Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky, who speaks at each stop, and brings the world of our past to life in the very places where it happened.Eshel Publications is proud to present to you the r...
Ashkenaz 06.1 – Doros HaRishonim
Journey to Our Past - July 14, 2023 21:25 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBeginning in 2017, Eshel Publications has been honored to host a summer trip through Jewish History. The trip is led by Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky, who speaks at each stop, and brings the world of our past to life in the very places where it happened.Eshel Publications is proud to present to you the r...
Ashkenaz 06 – R’ Yaakov Emden & R’ Yonoson Eybeschutz
Journey to Our Past - July 14, 2023 21:12 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBeginning in 2017, Eshel Publications has been honored to host a summer trip through Jewish History. The trip is led by Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky, who speaks at each stop, and brings the world of our past to life in the very places where it happened.Eshel Publications is proud to present to you the r...
Ashkenaz 05 – R’ Chaim Ozer and the Hildesheimer Seminary
Journey to Our Past - July 14, 2023 20:57 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBeginning in 2017, Eshel Publications has been honored to host a summer trip through Jewish History. The trip is led by Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky, who speaks at each stop, and brings the world of our past to life in the very places where it happened.Eshel Publications is proud to present to you the r...