Latest Shoah Podcast Episodes
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...
#1: A conversation with Ret. Lt. Col. Charles Stein, Holocaust survivor & WWII Veteran - Part 1
Like Me - January 28, 2021 05:09 - 30 minutesWelcome to 'Like Me', where I will have conversations with survivors and descendants of genocide from around the world. I'm your host, Joshua Stein. I am the paternal grandson of a late Holocaust survivor. The more I learn and see how present the very same hatred that my grandfather f...
Episode 10: Legacies
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking - August 19, 2020 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe series finale, but where does the story of the Kindertransport actually end? How has the memory of the Kindertransport affected those who experienced it, and how has it impacted us on a societal level? Historian Amy Williams weighs in and Barbara Winton, daughter of rescuer Sir Nicholas Wint...
Episode 9: Twenty-five Words
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking - July 16, 2020 16:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLetters between the Kindertransport refugees and their parents first served as a lifeline to home, but when war breaks out all that is allowed are brief messages transmitted through the International Red Cross. Many parents try to reassure their children that everything is fine, but then for man...
Episode 8: Enemy Aliens
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking - April 21, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAnti-German panic sets in and following Winston Churchill's edict to "collar the lot", all adult Germans and Austrians in the UK -- including Jewish refugees from the Kindertransport who were over 16 -- become "enemy aliens". Restrictions are imposed on their everyday lives, and many are sent to...
Episode 7: Identity
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking - February 24, 2020 22:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsForging a sense of identity is complicated enough for most children. Now try to imagine what it must have been like for those children who came on the Kindertransport. For many it was a case of being too Jewish for Germany; too German for Britain. In what ways were they made to feel at home in B...
Episode 6: Against the Backdrop of War
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking - January 25, 2020 16:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWith the onset of war in September 1939, the transport of child refugees to Britain stops, stranding untold numbers of children in Europe and cutting off those children who had already arrived in Britain from their families. Ursula Gilbert recalls her experience bouncing around between homes, ho...
Episode 5: Dovercourt
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking - December 18, 2019 19:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn the coldest winter Britain had experienced in more than a century, refugees were housed in unheated huts, while they tried to make the best of their situation by learning English and going on cultural outings. Meanwhile a radio appeal for prospective foster parents created a weekly experience...
Episode 4: First Impressions
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking - December 01, 2019 17:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThousands of British families respond to the call to help unaccompanied Jewish child refugees, and at long last Kindertransports start arriving. What were the reactions to the children upon arriving in a strange new country? Years later, what were the memories – positive and negative – that stuc...
Episode 3: The Decision Makers
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking - November 22, 2019 01:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe events of the November Pogrom prompt Westminster to loosen immigration restrictions, allowing unaccompanied child refugees to come to Britain. What did these children understand at the time about how they ended up on a Kindertransport? Eight refugees recall their experiences and historian Lo...
Episode 2: What Was Left Behind
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking - November 15, 2019 01:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFred Barschak can vividly remember the menu at his father's kosher restaurant. Otto Deutsch recalls his family's humble living conditions. And Ursula Gilbert remembers attending Berlin's grandest synagogue. These are some of the happy childhood memories that stand in stark contrast to subsequent...
Episode 1: The Journey
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking - November 07, 2019 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe Kindertransport was a loosely coordinated rescue effort in 1938-39 through which nearly 10,000 children under the age of 16 were sent by their parents to safety in England. What was that journey like? What memories did those refugees carry with them throughout their lives, of the day that th...
Kindertransport - Trailer
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking - October 07, 2019 15:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSubscribe now to this documentary series using firsthand testimony to uncover the story of the Kindertransport - the rescue of 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and Austria in 1938-39. Launching on 7th November 2019.
Holocaust Survivors’ Reflections and Hopes for the Future
First Person Podcast - September 29, 2010 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsIn today's episode, Holocaust survivors share their thoughts on the importance of speaking about their experiences. It is our tradition at First Person that each guest speaker ends the program with their "final words." In our final podcast of the series, we close with those thoughts, reflections,...
Estelle Laughlin: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
First Person Podcast - August 11, 2010 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsEstelle Laughlin discusses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when German forces, intending to liquidate the ghetto on April 19, 1943, were stunned by an armed uprising from Jewish fighters. Estelle and her family hid in an underground bunker during the uprising but were eventually captured and deported.
Theodora Klayman: Shelter in Ludbreg
First Person Podcast - July 13, 2010 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsTheodora (Dora) Klayman discusses surviving the war in hiding with her brother in Ludbreg, Yugoslavia. After her parents were deported in 1941, she spent the war first with her maternal aunt and then, after her aunt was denounced and deported, with non-Jewish neighbors.
Steven Fenves: Neighbors in Subotica
First Person Podcast - June 08, 2010 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsSteven Fenves discusses being forced into a ghetto immediately following the German occupation of his hometown of Subotica, Yugoslavia, in March 1944. As his family was forced out of their home, they encountered a range of responses from their non-Jewish neighbors.
Alfred Münzer: Difficult Decisions in the Occupied Netherlands
First Person Podcast - May 11, 2010 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsAlfred Munzer discusses the difficult decisions his parents, Dutch Jews, had to make after learning in early 1941 that they were expecting a child. Germany had invaded the Netherlands in May 1940 and conditions were growing increasingly difficult for Jews by the time Al was born.
Josiane Traum: Hiding in a Convent in Brugge
First Person Podcast - April 27, 2010 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsJosiane (Josy) Traum discusses her memories of life in hiding at a Carmelite convent in Brugge, Belgium. In 1942, as conditions grew increasingly more dangerous for Jews living in German-occupied Belgium, her mother, Fanny, arranged to have Belgian nuns hide her three-year-old daughter in the c...
Henry Greenbaum: Attempting Escape from a Slave Labor Camp
First Person Podcast - August 26, 2009 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsHenry Greenbaum discusses his attempt to escape from a slave labor camp near Starahowice, Poland, with his sister Faige and a Jewish policeman in July 1944.
Haim Solomon: Hiding during the Pogrom in Iasi
First Person Podcast - August 19, 2009 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsHaim Solomon discusses hiding during the pogrom that Romanian authorities staged against the Jewish population in Iasi, Romania, within days of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Haim and his family hid in various different locations across the city. At least 4,000 Jews were ...
Margit Meissner: Flight from Paris on a Bicycle
First Person Podcast - August 12, 2009 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsMargit Meissner discusses her flight from Paris just before the city fell to the Germans in June 1940. Margit and her mother were Austrian citizens living in Paris, which meant they were considered “enemy aliens” because Austria was annexed by Germany in 1938. They were ultimately separated and...
Gerald Schwab: A German Jewish Refugee Returns as an American Soldier
First Person Podcast - August 05, 2009 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsGerald Schwab discusses his experience being drafted into the US Army in 1944 after fleeing Nazi Germany just four years earlier. After the war, he assisted with the trials of leading German officials before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
Helen (Lebowitz) Goldkind: A Grandfather’s Humiliation
First Person Podcast - July 28, 2009 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsHelen Goldkind discusses the humiliation she and her family experienced as they were forced by the Germans to move from their hometown of Volosyanka to the Uzhgorod ghetto in Czechoslovakia in 1944.
Emanuel (Manny) Mandel: Wearing the Yellow Star as a Child in Hungary
First Person Podcast - July 22, 2009 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsManny Mandel discusses wearing a yellow star as a young boy in Budapest. Hungary fell increasingly under the influence of Germany in the 1930s and joined the Axis alliance in 1940. During this time, Jews in Hungary were increasingly subjected to discriminatory anti-Jewish laws modeled on those ...
Estelle Laughlin: Post-Liberation Struggles
First Person Podcast - July 21, 2009 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsEstelle Laughlin discusses her liberation by Soviet troops in January 1945 from the Czestochowa concentration camp in Poland. In the days immediately following liberation, she and her mother and sister encountered both hostile and helpful people as they traveled through Poland and struggled to re...
George Pick: Antisemitism in Hungary
First Person Podcast - July 15, 2009 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsGeorge Pick discusses experiencing antisemitism as a young boy in Hungary in the early 1940s. Hungary fell increasingly under the influence of Germany in the 1930s and joined the Axis alliance in 1940. During this time Jews in Hungary were increasingly subjected to discriminatory anti-Jewish laws...
Frank Liebermann: Changes in Germany After Nazi Rise to Power
First Person Podcast - July 14, 2009 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsFrank Liebermann discusses life in Germany after the Nazis came to power in 1933. Shortly after taking power, the Nazis began to eliminate individual rights and freedoms for Jews in Germany. This changed daily life for Frank and his family in many ways. Frank's father was a physician and it bec...
Regina Spiegel: Separation at Auschwitz
First Person Podcast - July 08, 2009 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsRegina Spiegel discusses her deportation from the ghetto in Pionki, Poland, and her arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi killing center. She and her boyfriend, Sam, were deported together in 1944 but were separated upon arrival at Auschwitz.
Julius Menn: Flight from Invading German Troops
First Person Podcast - July 01, 2009 14:00 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsJulius Menn discusses his family's flight eastward from advancing German troops invading Poland in September 1939. Julius's family escaped from Bialystok, Poland, to Vilna, Lithuania, eventually making their way through the Soviet Union to Palestine, where they had previously lived.