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On the Holocaust - Yad Vashem

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Profits and Persecution: German Big Business and Holocaust Crimes - a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

Before and during WWII, German corporations went from the abandonment of Jewish colleagues, through profiting off the dispossession and murd...

33:02Mar 14, 2023

How a TV show starring Meryl Streep changed Germany: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

In the late 1970’s, the American TV mini series “Holocaust” was broadcast in West Germany, and immediately took over the public discourse. F...

30:32Feb 19, 2023

After So Much Pain and Anguish - First Letters after Liberation: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

A sister writes to her brother, telling him their mother is gone. A husband, still looking for his wife and son, writes to old friends askin...

36:01Jan 17, 2023

Leyb Goldin’s race against starvation in the Ghetto: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

In August 1941, a young writer, Leyb Goldin, sat down to write about his day, struggling to survive in the Warsaw ghetto. This short piece o...

38:14Dec 28, 2022

A Farewell Letter to Dita [On the Holocaust]

On July 7 1944, a mere couple of hours before the liquidation of the Będzin Ghetto and the murder of all the Jews imprisoned in it, Sarah an...

32:50Dec 13, 2022

Diary of a Jewish Policeman in the Ghetto [On the Holocaust]

Calel (Calek) Perechodnik was a Jewish policeman in the Otwock ghetto. Within his role, he took part in an Aktion (forced deportation) in wh...

49:13Nov 30, 2022

The story of Sara Leicht [On the Holocaust]

In the spring of 1944, Sara Leicht was deported with her family from her home in Talgad, a small village in Transylvania, to the concentrati...

36:46Nov 14, 2022

The Story of the Minsk Ghetto Part 2: The Ghetto’s Underground and Liquidation [On the Holocaust]

In this episode we will continue to trace the fate of the Jews imprisoned in the Minsk Ghetto, focusing on one of its unique dimensions – th...

20:42Oct 24, 2022

The Story of the Minsk Ghetto: Establishment and Unceasing Terror [On the Holocaust]

The Minsk Ghetto was the fourth-largest ghetto, but for many reasons, its story is virtually unknown. Most of the witnesses and testimonies...

30:24Oct 2, 2022

A Desperate Plea - Petitions During The Holocaust: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

In Nazi Germany, and throughout Europe during the Holocaust period, Jews filed tens of thousands of petitions against their legal status and...

23:57Jun 13, 2022

The Perpetrators of the Holocaust - Consequences at a Distance (Redux) [On the Holocaust]

Today marks Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) 2022. In keeping with Yad Vashem's annual theme, "Transports to Ext...

27:32Apr 27, 2022

“The Scattered Life I Lead” - The Diary of Lucien Dreyfus: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

Holocaust-era diary writing offers a rare glimpse into real-time events and personal reflections that, had they not been written, may well h...

28:23Apr 18, 2022

Inside The Wannsee Conference: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

In early 1942, several high-ranking Nazi officials convened in a lavish villa outside Berlin for what would later be known as the Wannsee Co...

28:36Mar 9, 2022

The Kindertransport: Strangers in a Strange Land [On the Holocaust]

Just before the outbreak of World War II, about 10,000 Jewish children were given a rare chance to escape from mainland Europe. They were se...

28:26Feb 15, 2022

The Eichmann Trial [On the Holocaust]

On April 10, 1961, at 8:55 a.m. Adolf Eichmann, who during the Holocaust period had orchestrated the deportations of Jews to ghettos and ext...

36:16Jan 24, 2022

Crossing the Boundary - The Righteous Among the Nations [On the Holocaust]

In a morally bankrupt world, at a time when the attitude of the majority of the local population towards Jews was tainted by apathy or outri...

30:53Jul 11, 2021

The First Female Rabbi [On the Holocaust]

For years, the story of Regina Jonas was lost to the world. Then, in the 90s, scholars began to discover this woman of extraordinary talent...

25:55May 13, 2021

[On the Holocaust] What Happened at Babi Yar

On September 28, 1941, a German edict was issued ordering the Jews of Kiev and of the surrounding area to gather some clothes and belongings...

30:02Apr 14, 2021

[On the Holocaust] The Vilna Ghetto “Paper Brigade”

Shmerke Kaczerginski was a boisterous, radical young writer and musician who led an exciting circle of young artists who called themselves "...

37:54Apr 1, 2021

[On the Holocaust] Man on the Inside, Pt. 2

Kurt Gerstein defies easy categorization. The Germans didn't know what to think of him, the French changed their minds. His friends and fami...

26:40Mar 17, 2021