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Holocaust Stories are true life stories of those who were survivors of the Holocaust.

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.

This podcast features interviews with authors of new research, fresh monographs and recent books about the Holocaust and World War II.

There is a great debate among historians about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's actions during the Holocaust. Was FDR the hero that defeated the Germans, or did he turn a blind eye to the plight of the Jews as long as he possibly could? In Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Robert Beir analyzes specific actions and legislation to get at the truth behind Roosevelt's role in the Holocaust. Beir has a unique perspective. He is a Jew who was raised during the extreme anti-Semitism of the Great Depression. Having witnessed the fruits of the New Deal firsthand, Beir became a Roosevelt scholar.

Welcome to our podcast, TO BE CONTINUED… Reflections on Growing Up with Holocaust Survivors, where we explore the intersections of memory, identity, and resilience. Our goal is to lift up the experiences of children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, and to ask how survivors’ memories shaped their lives. How did resilience help form who they are today? And what legacy will they leave for the generations that follow? Within the next 10 years, most survivors will be gone. As the world loses these witnesses of the truths of the Holocaust, second- and third-generation voices are more ...

Welcome to Memory. Evidence. Change., a podcast that engages a wide range of guests whose lives and work intersect with the fields of Holocaust and genocide studies. Episodes in this podcast take one of three different formats: “Memory” episodes feature individuals with lived experience related to genocide or mass atrocity. “Evidence” episodes feature academic experts with emerging or establish research projects. And “Change” episodes feature individuals who have worked to implement change in our world. The Cohen Institute is a nonpartisan entity that aims to advance public ...

Objects of the Holocaust explores personal testimonies across generations through single objects, uncovering lesser-known histories of the Holocaust and telling incredible stories of family, loss, and survival. Hosted by Professor Tim Cole from the University of Bristol and actress and member of the second generation Louisa Clein, the series features a new guest each week who joins to offer a deeply human perspective on one of history’s darkest chapters. Objects of the Holocaust is brought to you by the Holocaust Educational Trust, a charity that works across the UK to ensure that the ...

A young Hungarian soldier was caught up in the events of the holocaust during WWII. He became a partisan and took notes of what he saw. Fifty years later, in 1998, he wrote a documentary detailing his experiences with the war, the holocaust, and the power of propaganda on the Hungarian population. He concluded it could happen again here.Image Attribution: Fred Romero from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Common

Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust - from the start of the European slave trade (c. 1500) to the Civil War (1865)? And how many were enslaved? The Black Holocaust, a travesty that killed millions of African human beings, is the most underreported major event in world history.

Fleeing East from Nazi terror, over a million Polish Jews traversed the Soviet Union, many finding refuge in Muslim lands. Their story - the extraordinary saga of two thirds of Polish Jewish survivors - has never been fully told. Author Mikhal Dekel's father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as "special settlements".

Holocaust Essentials is a production of 6M Holocaust Education Project. The purpose of 6M, and the Holocaust Essentials Podcast, is to ”make knowing about the Holocaust, popular”. This seasonal podcast will cover essential knowledge about the events surrounding the Holocaust. In a day when anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial are on the rise, and when politicians, celebrities and cultural voices of influence misuse and misquote the Holocaust, it’s time that our society became more aware of the facts of this crucial piece of human history so that our generation, and generations to come, do ...

Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after the attempted annihilation of European Jewry.

'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East security correspondent and Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. It analyses the often prejudiced coverage and intense scrutiny...

Maya Talby and Alon Ten-Ami interview holocaust survivors to record their stories so they are never forgotten.

When mysterious boxes land on his Vancouver doorstep, best-selling Canadian author Timothy Taylor embarks on a journey of discovery that takes him to Germany and into a hidden family history, spoken about rarely and in whispered tones. Following the breadcrumbs from remote farmhouses to the well-appointed offices of Germany’s cultural elite, Timothy’s on a mission to piece together his family’s experiences of persecution, death, exile and survival under the Nazis, to make sure his mother and grandparents are properly commemorated, to give voice to those the Nazis tried to silence. As ...

In an urgent and personal new book, Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-elected Jewish official in America, sheds light on the Jewish American experience and sounds the alarm about the troubling resurgence of antisemitism. For the first time in generations, antisemitism has become a...

Täterkind - Der Holocaust in uns. Bei diesem Podcast geht es um den Umgang mit diesem Thema aus Sicht der Täternachkommen und die schwierige Aufarbeitung desselben in deutschen Familien bis heute.

"Holocaust-Themed Ice Dance in Russia Draws Condemnation" is from the November 28, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Ivan Nechepurenko and Sewell Chan and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Holocaust Survivors’ Needs Grow, and Aid Is Slow to Catch Up" is from the September 18, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Melissa Eddy and narrated by Caroline Miller.

Sixteen-year-old Elly Gotz hides with his family in an underground bunker in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania, prepared to die rather than be found by the Nazis. After surviving nearly three years in the ghetto, where thousands from the Jewish community have been murdered, Elly and his family refuse to be the Nazis’ next victims. But there is no escape from the liquidation of the ghetto in the summer of 1944, and Elly and his father are taken to Kaufering, a brutal subcamp of the notorious Dachau concentration camp. After the war, as his family tries desperately to flee from Germany and their ...