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Sixteen years ago when he and his story was just coming to prominence in Ireland, Tomi Reichental paid a visit to LMFM and Gerry Kelly's Late Lunch Show, where he recounted memories of his childhood, growing up and surviving Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"mais bon, c'es trop tard, hein ?"Après avoir survécu à l'horreur de Birkenau, Ginette Kolinka entame la dernière étape de son calvaire concentrationnaire.Dans ce troisième et dernier épisode, elle nous raconte son transfert vers le camp de Bergen-Belsen, puis son voyage glaçant vers Theresienstadt à bord de ce que l'on appellera « le train fantôme ».Ce volet final lève le voile sur une cicatrice intime : le regret lancinant de Ginette d'avoir été "trop abrupte" envers les siens au retour des camps.Un sentiment de culpabilité qui témoigne de la violence extrême du système nazi, lequel obligeait les déportés à éteindre leur propre humanité pour espérer survivre un jour de plus.Aujourd'hui âgée de 101 ans, celle qui a longtemps vécu dans une forme d'anesthésie des sentiments parcourt inlassablement les collèges et les lycées.Elle offre sa voix à ceux qui n'en ont plus, transformant ses souvenirs douloureux en une générosité débordante pour les générations futures.Découvrez le dernier volet du témoignage exceptionnel de Ginette Kolinka, 19 ans enfant de la Shoah
Après l'arrestation brutale du 13 mars 1944 et l'arrivée déchirante sur la rampe d'Auschwitz, le destin de Ginette Kolinka bascule définitivement.À 19 ans, choisie pour le travail forcé, elle entre dans un monde où l'humanité n'a plus sa place.Dans ce deuxième volet de son témoignage, Ginette nous raconte son quotidien à Birkenau.Elle décrit avec une précision glaçante la lutte de chaque instant contre le froid, la faim, les coups et l'épuisement.C'est le récit d'une survie impossible dans un camp devenu usine d'extermination.Alors que le front de l'Est s'effondre en novembre 1944 et que les troupes soviétiques approchent, Ginette est témoin des premières tentatives nazies pour effacer les preuves du génocide en dynamitant les chambres à gaz et les crématoires.Pourtant, l'Allemagne refuse de laisser partir ses déportés : considérée comme une "ressource" pour l'effort de guerre, elle est évacuée vers des camps situés plus à l'ouest pour servir de main-d'œuvre dans les usines du Reich.Voici la deuxième partie du témoignage de Ginette Kolinka, une voix essentielle pour ne jamais oublier.À venir : Dans le prochain et dernier épisode, Ginette nous racontera ses derniers mois à Bergen-Belsen, puis son départ dans le train de la mort pour Theresienstadt.La mémoire ne vit que si elle se transmet. Si ce récit vous touche, n'hésitez pas à le partager autour de vous, à vous abonner sur vos plateformes d'écoute et à laisser une note ou un commentaire pour soutenir ce travail de transmission.NE PERDONS PAS L'HISTOIRE, PARTAGEONS-LA…
C'est Lili qui raconte. Personne d'autre. De la maison familiale jusqu'aux camps, de la prison de Loos à Ravensbrück, puis Bergen-Belsen. Un trajet qui bascule, brutalement, des jours ordinaires à l'insoutenable.Dans Lili toujours debout, jusqu'au bout, publiée chez Glénat, Boris Golzio recueille cette parole et la restitue sans détour. Il écoute, il retranscrit, il dessine. Et puis, dans les dernières pages, il prend le relais : il contextualise, il éclaire, il documente. Parce que Lili l'a prévenu : elle n'avait que 11 ans, elle n'a pas tout vu, tout compris. Alors il faut être précis, irréprochable.
Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, First, Mark Dunley takes us to the state capitol, where climate activists were arrested while protesting Governor Hochul's inaction on key climate legislation. Then, Willie Terry reports from the Capital District Area Labor Federation "May Day Solidarity Event" at West Capitol Park. After that, H Bosh Jr interviews Diane Mbombo-Tite, an entrepreneur who immigrated from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Albany in 2015. Finally, Sina Basila Hickey interviews Jean Stoler about visiting Bergen-Belsen, a former Nazi concentration camp and Jean's place of birth.
Als die Alliierten am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs 1945 Orte wie Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen oder Buchenwald befreiten, stießen sie auf eine Hölle, die viele nie für möglich gehalten hatten. Soldaten, Kriegsberichterstatter und Mediziner, die als Erste die Lager betraten, sahen die schlimmsten Abgründe der Menschheit: fast verhungerte Überlebende, Leichenberge, die unfassbare Grausamkeit offenbarten.Besonders bekannt ist die Reaktion von Dwight D. Eisenhower, der nach der Befreiung von Ohrdruf zutiefst erschüttert war. Er befahl, die Gräuel zu dokumentieren, und zwang deutsche Zivilisten und Offiziere, die Lager zu besichtigen, um ihnen die grausame Realität ihres Regimes unmissverständlich vor Augen zu führen.So eine Situation erlebte auch der Prophet Hesekiel, als Gott ihm in einer Vision die tiefste Verderbnis seines Volkes offenbarte (Hesekiel 8) – einen Götzendienst, durchtränkt von ritueller Perversion, moralischem Verfall und schamloser Rebellion gegen den heiligen Gott. So ist es auch heute: Nach außen wird ein Stück weit der Schein gewahrt, aber im tiefsten Inneren des Herzens geschieht auf übelste Weise Abgötterei – mit schlimmen Folgen.Wie ermutigend ist es zu wissen, dass Jesus diese Abgründe bereits kennt, dass es nichts in unserem Leben gibt, das ihn abschrecken würde. Er kennt unsere dunkelsten Gedanken, unsere vernarbten Vergangenheiten, unsere geheimen Kammern des Götzendienstes, die niemand sieht. Jesus blickt täglich durch das Schlüsselloch unserer Seele und erschrickt nicht. Im Gegenteil, er bietet uns Vergebung und einen Neuanfang an. Timothy Keller sagte: »Das Evangelium lautet: Wir sind sündiger und fehlerhafter, als wir zu glauben wagten, und doch in Christus mehr geliebt und angenommen, als wir es je hofften.«Simon PaulsDiese und viele weitere Andachten online lesenWeitere Informationen zu »Leben ist mehr« erhalten Sie unter www.lebenistmehr.de
Jean Stoler was born in the Bergen-Belsen DP Camp, a former Nazi concentration camp. In 2025 Jean traveled back to her place of birth in Germany to understand her roots with her sister, daughters, and a grand kid. Sina Basila Hickey spoke with Jean to reflect on this experience and how this experience changed her world view. Image: a painting by Jean of her mother wearing a Jude yellow star, with a photo of Jean as a baby with her parents held in front.
durée : 00:05:05 - Bulles de BD - par : Laetitia Gayet - Lili Keller-Rosenberg fut déportée avec ses frères et sa mère à Ravensbrück et Bergen-Belsen en 1943. Ils reviendront, mais pas ensemble. Infatigable, Lili témoigne sans fard de ces mois d'horreur. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.
durée : 00:05:05 - Bulles de BD - par : Laetitia Gayet - Lili Keller-Rosenberg fut déportée avec ses frères et sa mère à Ravensbrück et Bergen-Belsen en 1943. Ils reviendront, mais pas ensemble. Infatigable, Lili témoigne sans fard de ces mois d'horreur. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France
Happy “Tax Day”! I wonder what the American Revolutionary Founders would think of ‘Tax Day’, on this momentous 250th Anniversary of our American Independence…? Links Videos / Clips [x] = Played The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer – American Archive of Public Broadcasting [x] 48:56--49:39 JIM LEHRER: What is the proper relationship, what should be the proper relationship between a chairman of the Fed and a president of the United States? ALAN GREENSPAN: Well, first of all, the Federal Reserve is an independent agency, and that means, basically, that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take. So long as that is in place and there is no evidence that the administration or the Congress or anybody else is requesting that we do things other than what we think is the appropriate thing, then what the relationships are don’t, frankly, matter. And I’ve had very good relationships with presidents. 1. [x] Understanding Fractional Reserve Banking: How It Fuels Economic Growth Fractional reserve banking is the banking system most countries use today. It requires banks to hold only a fraction of the money their customers deposit. That amount is the reserve requirement, and in most countries, it is set by the central bank. Banks can loan the rest of their deposits to other customers, which serves to expand the economy. It works like this. Banks accept deposits from individuals and businesses providing them with savings and checking accounts in return. Banks can loan out the bulk of those deposits to other customers to buy homes or cars, start businesses, or to fund other projects. If a customer deposits $100,000 into a bank and the reserve requirement is 5%, the bank can loan $95,000 out to other customers. Once the bank has loaned out $95,000, it in essence has created $195,000. Customers borrow that $95,000 and deposit some or all of it into other banks. If the reserve requirement is still 5%, then the other banks can loan $90,250 to new customers. And the process keeps repeating itself. Financial crisis occurs when the fractional banking system breaks down and the money supply does not expand. Many US banks had to shut down during the Great Depression, because so many people attempted to withdraw their money at the same time. Today, safeguards exist to prevent such an occurrence. 1. 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There is no saying where this fire will end. Perhaps in the general conflagration of all their paper. …nothing is necessary but a general panic, produced either by failures, invasion or any other cause, and the whole visionary fabric vanishes into air and shews that paper is poverty, that it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. [x] Money, whence it came, where it went : Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. Where something so important is involved, a deeper mystery seems only decent. 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If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers. Our landholders, too, like theirs, retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must wander, like theirs, in foreign countries, and be contented with penury, obscurity, exile, and the glory of the nation. This example reads to us the salutary lesson, that private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, and to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. [x] Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address (Mar 4, 1837) | The American Presidency Project The severe lessons of experience will, I doubt not, be sufficient to prevent Congress from again chartering such a monopoly, even if the Constitution did not present an insuperable objection to it. But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government. The power which the moneyed interest can exercise, when concentrated under a single head and with our present system of currency, was sufficiently demonstrated in the struggle made by the Bank of the United States. [x] Federal Reserve Act – Wikisource, the free online library Sec. 30.. The right to amend, alter, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. [x] hypothecate – definition and meaning [x] Websters 1828 – Webster’s Dictionary 1828 – Hypothecate HYPOTH’ECATE, verb transitive [Latin hypotheca, a pledge; Gr. to put under, to suppose.] 1. To pledge, and properly to pledge the keel of a ship, that is, the ship itself, as security for the repayment of money borrowed to carry on a voyage. In this case the lender hazards the loss of his money by the loss of the ship, but if the ship returns safe, he received his principal, with the premium or interest agreed on, though it may exceed the legal rate of interest. 2. To pledge, as goods. [x] 321gold: Gold and Economic Freedom by Alan Greenspan 1966 In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard. 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In 1995, Ruslan Tsarni (formerly known as Ruslan Tsarnaev, affectionately known as “Uncle Ruslan,” the American corporate media darling who bemoaned the alleged actions of his nephews Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev ) married the daughter of the former Deputy Director of the CIA's National Council on Intelligence, Graham Fuller. While the marriage of Samantha Ankara Fuller and Ruslan Tsarnaev was short-lived, reportedly ending in divorce in 1999, it appears that Ruslan and Graham Fuller were more than just father-in-law and son. They may also been business partners. These key details in the history of the Tsarnaev family and the CIA were first reported by Daniel Hopsicker of Mad Cow Morning News, and the marriage of Fuller's daughter and Ruslan has indeed been confirmed by Al-Monitor reporter, Laura Rozen. ↩ Hopsicker, Daniel. “Boston Bombers' Uncle Married Daughter of Top CIA Official.” MadCow Morning News, 26 Apr. 2013, www.madcowprod.com/2013/04/26/boston-bombers-uncle-married-daughter-of-top-cia-official/. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026. ↩ Hopsicker, Daniel. ““Uncle Ruslan” Aided Terrorists from CIA Official's Home.” MadCow Morning News, 29 Apr. 2013, www.madcowprod.com/2013/04/29/uncle-ruslan-aid-to-terrorists-from-cia-officials-home/. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026. ↩ Corbett, James. “Who Is Graham Fuller?” The Corbett Report, 2026, corbettreport.com/who-is-graham-fuller/. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026. ↩ “Graham Fuller – Wikispooks.” Wikispooks.com, 2026, wikispooks.com/wiki/Graham_Fuller. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026. ↩ Wikipedia Contributors. “Graham E. Fuller.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 30 Mar. 2026, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_E._Fuller. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026. ↩ Wikipedia Contributors. “Islamism.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 23 Feb. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026. ↩ Wikipedia Contributors. “Tablighi Jamaat.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 Apr. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablighi_Jamaat. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026. ↩ Engdahl, F. William. “Graham E. Fuller Where Were You on the Night of July 15?” Archive.org, 9 Aug. 2016, www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO9Aug2016.php. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026. ↩
À Nice, en 1943, la situation des Juifs devient de plus en plus dangereuse.Après le retrait des Italiens et l'arrivée des Allemands, les arrestations se multiplient. Pour beaucoup d'enfants juifs, le danger est immédiat.C'est à ce moment-là que deux personnes décident d'agir. Moussa Abadi, homme de théâtre, et Odette Rosenstock, médecin.Tous deux juifs, réfugiés à Nice, ils vont organiser l'un des réseaux de sauvetage d'enfants les plus remarquables de la résistance civile en France.Avec l'aide de Monseigneur Rémond, l'évêque de Nice, ils mettent en place un réseau clandestin pour cacher des enfants juifs dans des institutions religieuses, des familles et des villages de l'arrière-pays. Moussa prend une fausse identité - Monsieur Marcel - qui donnera son nom au réseau. Il fabrique de faux papiers et invente pour chaque enfant une nouvelle histoire. Odette, elle, parcourt la région pour rendre visite aux enfants cachés et veiller sur eux.Grâce à ce réseau, 527 enfants juifs seront sauvés.Le 25 avril 1944, Odette Rosenstock est arrêtée par la Gestapo. Torturée, elle ne parlera pas. Elle sera déportée à Auschwitz puis Bergen-Belsen… et survivra.Dans cet épisode bonus, Jeannette raconte la naissance du Réseau Marcel, qui lui sauvera la vie, ainsi que celle de centaines d'autres enfants.NE PERDONS PAS L'HISTOIRE, PARTAGEONS-LA…
L'émission 28 minutes du 01/04/2026 Le témoignage bouleversant et édifiant d'une rescapée des camps de la mort Lili Keller-Rosenberg a 11 ans quand elle est arrêtée à Roubaix, puis déportée au camp de concentration de Ravensbrück en décembre 1943. Quatre-vingts ans après, elle raconte son histoire dans une bande dessinée publiée aux éditions Glénat, accompagnée par Boris Golzio. “Lili, toujours debout, jusqu'au bout ! De Ravensbrück à Bergen-Belsen”, retrace le parcours de cette famille juive d'origine hongroise : le père déporté à Buchenwald où il sera assassiné, Lili, ses deux frères et sa mère, envoyés à Ravensbrück, puis à Bergen-Belsen dont ils sortiront en vie. Méga-concerts, boom du streaming : pour la musique, un jackpot sans fausses notes ? C'est l'événement musical de l'année : le retour de Céline Dion sur scène pour dix concerts du 12 septembre au 14 octobre à La Défense Arena, à Nanterre. 400 000 spectateurs sont attendus et les retombées économiques pourraient atteindre un milliard d'euros pour la France. Depuis plusieurs années, le modèle des méga-concerts s'est développé dans l'industrie musicale, si bien qu'un terme a même été inventé pour qualifier les retombées économiques de ceux de Taylor Swift : les “Swiftonomics”. La Fédération internationale de l'industrie phonographique a enregistré des revenus en hausse de 6 % en 2025 par rapport à 2024. Ces succès ne reposent pas seulement sur la scène mais aussi sur le boom des vinyles. Le développement de l'intelligence artificielle pourrait rebattre les cartes. On débat avec Joëlle Farchy, professeure des universités à l'Université Paris 1, spécialiste des industries culturelles, Mathilde Serrell, journaliste et productrice à France Inter, et Bertrand Burgalat, musicien, président du Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Pour la première fois, les femmes médecins sont plus nombreuses que les hommes en France : l'occasion pour Xavier Mauduit de nous raconter l'histoire de Jacqueline Félicie de Almania, une médecin du Moyen Âge. Marie Bonnisseau nous explique comment le vieillissement de la population bouleverse les modes de consommation et la stratégie des marques. 28 minutes est le magazine d'actualité d'ARTE, présenté par Élisabeth Quin du lundi au jeudi à 20h05. Renaud Dély est aux commandes de l'émission le vendredi et le samedi. Ce podcast est coproduit par KM et ARTE Radio. Enregistrement 1 avril 2026 Présentation Élisabeth Quin Production KM, ARTE Radio
Histoire de 10 minutes racontée par Binyamin BENHAMOU.
durée : 00:17:45 - Divers aspects de la pensée contemporaine - par : Anne Amis - Rescapée des camps de Ravensbrück et Bergen-Belsen, Lili Keller-Rosenberg est une femme au destin et à l'engagement exceptionnels qui décide, dans les années 1980, de témoigner auprès des jeunes afin de porter une parole de paix, de tolérance et de fraternité. - réalisation : Peire Legras, Philippe Baudouin - invités : Lili Keller-Rosenberg Déportée, survivante des camps de la mort. Témoigne auprès des élèves depuis 1980, de l'histoire de la mémoire, de la Résistance et de la Déportation.
Full Text of Readings Saturday of the Second Week of Lent Lectionary: 235 The Saint of the day is Saints Perpetua and Felicity Saints Perpetua and Felicity's Story “When my father in his affection for me was trying to turn me from my purpose by arguments and thus weaken my faith, I said to him, ‘Do you see this vessel—water pot or whatever it may be? Can it be called by any other name than what it is?' ‘No,' he replied. ‘So also I cannot call myself by any other name than what I am—a Christian.'” So writes Perpetua: young, beautiful, well-educated, a noblewoman of Carthage in North Africa, mother of an infant son and chronicler of the persecution of the Christians by Emperor Septimius Severus. Perpetua's mother was a Christian and her father a pagan. He continually pleaded with her to deny her faith. She refused and was imprisoned at 22. In her diary, Perpetua describes her period of captivity: “What a day of horror! Terrible heat, owing to the crowds! Rough treatment by the soldiers! To crown all, I was tormented with anxiety for my baby…. Such anxieties I suffered for many days, but I obtained leave for my baby to remain in the prison with me, and being relieved of my trouble and anxiety for him, I at once recovered my health, and my prison became a palace to me and I would rather have been there than anywhere else.” Despite threats of persecution and death, Perpetua, Felicity–a slavewoman and expectant mother–and three companions, Revocatus, Secundulus and Saturninus, refused to renounce their Christian faith. For their unwillingness, all were sent to the public games in the amphitheater. There Saints Perpetua and Felicity were beheaded, and the others killed by beasts. Felicity gave birth to a daughter a few days before the games commenced. Perpetua's record of her trial and imprisonment ends the day before the games. “Of what was done in the games themselves, let him write who will.” The diary was finished by an eyewitness. Reflection Persecution for religious beliefs is not confined to Christians in ancient times. Consider Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who with her family, was forced into hiding and later died in Bergen-Belsen, one of Hitler's death camps during World War II. Anne, like Saints Perpetua and Felicity, endured hardship and suffering and finally death because she committed herself to God. In her diary, Anne writes, “It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground, and maintain our opinions, in a time when all ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God.”Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media
Avi Applestein ist Psychotherapeut, Sohn von Holocaust-Überlebenden und Zeitzeuge der zweiten Generation. Seine Eltern überlebten die Shoa u.a. in Auschwitz und Bergen-Belsen, ihre Geschichte prägte seine Kindheit und seinen Lebensweg tief. Heute berichtet Avi vor Schüler*innen von der Verfolgung seiner Familie und schafft einen sehr persönlichen Zugang zur Geschichte der NS-Zeit. Wir sprechen über seine Geschichte, über Verantwortung, Zugänge zum Thema Holocaust und darüber, was Erinnerung heute bedeutet. Auch geht es um die Frage, wie und warum demokratische Werte geschützt werden müssen. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt ist sein Engagement im jüdisch-muslimischen Dialog. Gemeinsam mit einer muslimischen Freundin besucht er Schulen und zeigt, wie Begegnung, Nähe und echte Freund*innenschaft in polarisierten Zeiten gelingen kann. Eine Folge über Erinnerung, Haltung und darüber, warum „Nie wieder“ mehr sein muss als ein Satz, der symbolpolitisch ausgehöhlt wird.
Danny Finkelstein's mother survived Bergen-Belsen. When far-right activist Nick Fuentes began spreading antisemitic, pro-Hitler ideas, our writer challenged him. He wasn't ready for the onslaught that ensued.This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestoryReady by: Danny Finkelstein, Times columnist, author and Conservative peer.Producer: Dave Creasey.We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.comRead more: Daniel Finkelstein: How the world's antisemites turned on meClips: TalkTV, CBS.Photo: Tom Jackson for The Times Magazine.This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times. To enjoy unlimited digital access to all our journalism subscribe here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Am 27. Januar 1945 befreite die Rote Armee das deutsche KZ- und Vernichtungslager Auschwitz – Birkenau. An diesem Datum wird international der Opfer des Holocaust gedacht Abseits dieses Gedenktagtags erinnern Gedenkstätten an die Vergangenheit und leisten zudem Demokratie- und Bildungsarbeit. Drohungen und Anfeindungen von rechts nehmen zu. Gleichzeitig wissen laut Umfragen viele junge Menschen in Deutschland nicht, was während des Holocaust passiert ist. Muss sich das gesellschaftliche Erinnern verändern? Wie sollte Gedenken künftig aussehen? Andrea Beer diskutiert mit Susanne Siegert –Journalistin mit Schwerpunkt digitale Erinnerungskultur; Alexander Estis –Schriftsteller; Elke Gryglewsky – Geschäftsführerin Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten und Leiterin Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen
Ce 27 janvier marque la Journée internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l'Holocauste. C'était il y a un peu plus de 80 ans : l'extermination par l'Allemagne nazie de la moitié des juifs d'Europe. Comment continuer à faire vivre cette mémoire ? Comment continuer à transmettre dans un contexte de montée de l'antisémitisme ? Une édition spéciale de Parlons-en avec Stéphanie Trouillard, journaliste à France 24, Hubert Strouk, agrégé d'Histoire et responsable pédagogique au Mémorial de la Shoah et le témoignage exceptionnel de Léon Placek, rescapé du camp de Bergen-Belsen.
El programa destaca a cuatro mujeres esenciales en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Josephine Baker, artista y espía aliada, utiliza su fama para recopilar información clave, luchando contra el fascismo. Nancy Wake, apodada "el ratón blanco" por la Gestapo, combate en la resistencia francesa, coordina acciones de sabotaje y entrena con los servicios secretos británicos. Irma Grese, guardiana nazi en campos de concentración como Auschwitz y Bergen-Belsen, demuestra una crueldad sádica al torturar prisioneros y participar en selecciones para las cámaras de gas, siendo ejecutada a los 22 años. Charity Adams Earle, oficial afroamericana, lidera un batallón de mujeres que clasifica y entrega diecisiete millones de cartas a los soldados estadounidenses en Europa, elevando su moral y rompiendo barreras raciales y de género.
The Satmar Rav, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum, was rescued on the Kastner train. How did this great leader of Hungarian Orthodoxy and chassidic community, who was well known for his vocal opposition to Zionism, receive a place of rescue on the train which was organized by the secular Zionist Aid and Rescue Committee of Budapest? Insights into his inclusion broadens our understanding of how the rescue train story developed. Other famous individuals were rescued on the Kastner train as well. In conclusion it's worth summarizing the entire story of the negotiations with the SS and the rescue train's departure from Budapest, through its stay in Bergen-Belsen. Clarifying the chronological sequence of events will provide a good review of the entire train story, so that we can transition to the story of the trial in the next installment. Subscribe to Jewish History Soundbites Podcast on: PodBean: https://jsoundbites.podbean.com/ or your favorite podcast platform Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram at @Jsoundbites For sponsorship opportunities about your favorite topics of Jewish history or feedback contact Yehuda at: yehuda@yehudageberer.com
How do we light candles, sing songs of gratitude, spin the dreidel, and eat latkes - in the shadow of devastating loss and tragedy?This episode begins with that tension. On one end of the world, the beautiful celebration of Chanukah at Bondi Beach was shattered by an antisemitic attack. We remember moments when Jews lit Chanukah candles in places like Bergen-Belsen, clinging to meaning when there was almost nothing left.We reflect on the haunting video of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, and on Viktor Frankl's insight that “those who have a why to live can bear almost any how.” Chanukah does not ask us to ignore suffering. It asks us to hold light and darkness together - to choose meaning, resilience, and hope, even when life feels unbearably fractured.Check out my book Living Beautifully - how to bring meaning, joy and love into your life based on the timeless wisdom of Pirkei Avot. https://amzn.to/4aYmuwp
Complete our 2025 survey: https://unpacked.bio/uihsurvey Help us take Unpacked podcasts further by supporting our crowdfunding campaign: https://unpacked.bio/podgift2025 In the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre, Noam tells three Hanukkah stories about Jews choosing light anyway, a menorah in Bergen-Belsen, hostages lighting candles in captivity, and a defiant window in Nazi Germany. Then an epilogue from Billings, Montana, when a community answered antisemitism with thousands of menorahs in their windows. Noam's request is simple: light a candle, take a picture, send it in, and help push back the dark. To sponsor an episode or to be in touch, please email noam@unpacked.media. Check us out on Youtube. This podcast was brought to you by Unpacked, an OpenDor Media brand. ------------------- For other podcasts from Unpacked, check out: Jewish History Nerds Soulful Jewish Living Stars of David with Elon Gold Wondering Jews
NEW SERIES ON JEWISH HISTORY SOUNDBITES On June 30, 1944, a train departed Budapest, Hungary, carrying 1,684 Jews as its passengers. This occurred during the peak of the Nazi deportations of Hungarian Jewry to Auschwitz in the horrific summer of 1944. This particular trainload however, following a short stint in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, was permitted to cross the border into Switzerland and freedom. The entire project was orchestrated through direct negotiations with the SS through the efforts of a young Zionist leader in Budapest named Rudolf Kastner. Though the lives of those on the train were saved, the entire operation was deemed controversial due to the fact that Kastner chose not to spread the word of the impending deportations among the wider masses of Hungarian Jewry. This resulted in an even more controversial courtroom drama in the 1950's in Jerusalem, in a trial erroneously known to history as the Kastner trial. This multi part series now being launched on Jewish History Soundbites podcast will examine the story of the negotiations, rescue, aftermath, trial and legacy. It will attempt to provide a historical context as it was understood by the diverse array of characters involved in the narrative at the time. Subscribe to Jewish History Soundbites Podcast on: PodBean: https://jsoundbites.podbean.com/ or your favorite podcast platform Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram at @Jsoundbites For sponsorship opportunities about your favorite topics of Jewish history or feedback contact Yehuda at: yehuda@yehudageberer.com
When Dublin officials moved to strip the name of Chaim Herzog—Israel's Irish-born sixth president—from a community park, it wasn't just a local dispute. It was an act of erasure. In this emotional episode, Dr. Alexandra Herzog, AJC's Director of the William Petschek Global Jewish Communities Department, explains why this attempt to rewrite history should alarm not only Jews, but all citizens of goodwill. As anti-Zionist fervor increasingly targets Jewish identity across the West, the push to remove a Jewish name from a park beside Ireland's only Jewish school sends a chilling message: Jewish heritage has now become a political battleground. Alexandra shares personal memories of her grandfather and illustrates why this fight isn't about a plaque in Ireland—it's about halting the slide from criticism of Israel into the deletion of Jewish memory. Tune in to understand why defending this history is essential to protecting Jewish dignity everywhere. Key Resources: AJC Welcomes Dublin City Council's Decision to Shelve Renaming of Herzog Park Letter in the Irish Times: Renaming Herzog Park in Dublin Would Be An Act of Erasure Against Ireland's Jews Listen: Will Ireland Finally Stop Paying Lip Service When it Comes to Combating Antisemitism? AJC Directly Addresses Antisemitism and Vilification of Israel in Ireland with the Prime Minister Listen – AJC Podcasts: Architects of Peace The Forgotten Exodus People of the Pod Follow People of the Pod on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/PeopleofthePod You can reach us at: peopleofthepod@ajc.org If you've appreciated this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the full transcript: https://www.ajc.org/news/podcast/erasing-jewish-history-why-what-happened-in-ireland-should-alarm-all-jews Transcript of the Interview: Manya Brachear Pashman: Members of the City Council of Dublin, Ireland have withdrawn a proposal to rename a park that since 1995 has honored former Israeli President Chaim Herzog. The park, located near Dublin's only Jewish school, is named after Herzog, Israel's sixth president, who was born in Belfast. Here to talk about the now withdrawn proposal is Alexandra Herzog, AJC's Director of the William Petschek Global Jewish Communities Department, and Chaim Herzog's granddaughter. Alexandra, welcome to People of the Pod. Alexandra Herzog: Thank you so much for having me, Manya. Manya Brachear Pashman: So you have joined us before, but on a different podcast, The Forgotten Exodus, which is our narrative series about Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. You were joining us to talk about your maternal grandfather, Nessim Gaon, the longtime president of the World Sephardi Federation. He came to Israel from Sudan. But this time, we're talking about your paternal grandfather, Chaim Herzog. How did someone born in Ireland later become President of Israel? Alexandra Herzog: Yes, that's a great question. Manya, so my grandfather, Chaim Herzog, was, as you said, born in Belfast. He grew up in Dublin in a very proudly Jewish home. His father actually was a Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, and he served as the Rabbi of Belfast before becoming the chief rabbi of Ireland. So he moved from Belfast to Dublin in 1919. He was affectionately known as the Sinn Féin rabbi, and he was highly respected and close to many of the leaders of the Irish independence movement. So my grandfather really grew up in a house that was deeply steeped in Jewish learning, in Irish patriotism, and he had a very strong sense of moral responsibility. And as a young man, he had to leave Ireland to study, and he later enlisted in the British Army during World War Two, he fought the Nazis as an intelligence officer. He was one of the first soldiers actually to enter the concentration camp of Bergen Belsen, and he interrogated senior Nazi officials. Now, after the war, he moved to what would become the State of Israel, and he helped build the very young country, almost from its founding, in different positions. And you know, then later, he became Israel's ambassador to the UN and a member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. And by the time he was elected as Israel's sixth president in 1983 he was widely seen really, as a statesman who combined Irish warmth and some storytelling with a very deep sense of Jewish history and Jewish responsibility. He never stopped describing himself, actually, as an Irish born man. and he often spoke about how Ireland really shaped his worldview, and his commitment to freedom and to democracy. Manya Brachear Pashman: And you mentioned that he was the ambassador to the United Nations. He was, in fact, Ambassador when the resolution Zionism is Racism was, was part of the conversation. Alexandra Herzog: That's right. Yes, one of the two UN resolutions ever to be withdrawn and canceled, very important one. That's right. Manya Brachear Pashman: In fact, if I'm not mistaken, he tore it in half. Alexandra Herzog: He did. He tore it in half saying that this was nothing but a piece of paper, and explained how, you know, we could not equate Zionism to racism in any sort of way. Manya Brachear Pashman: So were those the reasons why, in 1995, the Dublin City Council decided to name the park after your grandfather? Or were there other reasons? Yeah. Alexandra Herzog: I mean, I think that, you know, I think it was a gesture, really, of recognition, of pride. I mean, Dublin was basically honoring an Irish man, you know, one of its own, an Irish born Jew who had gone to become, it's true, a global statesman, the President of Israel, but who really never stopped speaking about his Irish roots. And I think that that was really a source of pride for him, but also for Ireland in general, for many, many years. And as you said, you know, Herzog Park really sits in a very historically Jewish neighborhood. It's near, actually, where my family lived, where my grandfather grew up, and it's right next to the country's only Jewish school. So naming a park for my grandfather was, I think, really a way of acknowledging this deep Irish Jewish history, and the fact that it is part of Irish history. So I think that my family story is very much woven into the country's broader story of independence, of democracy and of moral courage, really. Manya Brachear Pashman: Yet 30 years later, there has been an attempt to rename that park and strip that name from the park. Why? What happened in 30 years? Alexandra Herzog: It's a great question. I think that in the past three decades, you know, we've really seen the Israeli Palestinian conflict become a proxy battlefield for broader political debates in Europe, but also really everywhere around the world. In Ireland, the criticism of Israeli policies, of the Israeli government, has increasingly blurred into hostility towards Israel as a whole, and at times even towards Israelis and towards Jews. What is really striking about this proposal is that it doesn't target a policy or even a government decision within Ireland. It targets a piece of Jewish and Irish history. So instead of creating a new space or a memorial, the proposal really sought to erase an existing Jewish name. And I think that that shift from debate to erasure, because that's really what we're talking about, is what worries me the most. It reflects really a climate in which maybe some feel that expressing solidarity with Palestinians require overriding an important part of Jewish history and Jewish presence. Jewish memory, really. So one of their proposals is actually to rename it Free Palestine park, or to rename it after, you know, a Palestinian child. Obviously from a personal perspective, it's extremely problematic to remove a Jewish name to replace it by another group. We don't need to do that. We can recognize the realities and the lived experiences of both groups without having to erase one over another. Manya Brachear Pashman: I should note that last year, Israel recalled its ambassador, and in December, closed its embassy in Dublin, accusing the Irish government of extreme anti-Israel policies, antisemitic rhetoric and double standards. So really, taking the debate to extremes, and that the, in fact, the tiny Jewish community that is still there about–would you say about 3000 people in the Irish Jewish community? Alexandra Herzog: That's right. Manya Brachear Pashman: They're facing antisemitism as well. We actually interviewed our colleague, AJC's Director of International Jewish Affairs, Rabbi Andrew Baker, at the time, just about a year ago, because he also serves as the Personal Representative on Combating Antisemitism and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. So he had just met with the Irish Prime Minister whose administration had recently adopted the international Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's Working Definition of Antisemitism. So I'm curious now with this attempt to rename the park and do something so harsh to erase Jewish history, has that definition been implemented, or has it failed to be implemented? Alexandra Herzog: Yeah, I think that the adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism by the Irish government was really an important and a very welcome step. On paper, you know, it gives officials and institutions, law enforcement, a shared framework, really, for recognizing antisemitism, including when it appears in the guise of anti-Israel rhetoric. I think that the challenge, really, as always, is implementation. So from what I hear in conversations with the Irish Jewish community, and you know, Jewish community leaders and colleagues who follow these issues very closely, there's still a significant gap between the formal adoption of the IHRA and the day to day practice. Whether it's in, you know, political discourse or in education, or even how incidents are simply discussed or understood. And I think that the current controversy here that we're talking about with Herzog Park is a perfect example of that. If you apply the IHRA seriously, then you see very quickly how targeting a specifically Jewish symbol in a Jewish neighborhood, in order to make a political point about Israel, actually crosses the line into antisemitism. So I think that if we could really work on the implementation much more, that would be extremely positive. Manya Brachear Pashman: And in fact, the prime minister himself actually condemned the attempt by the Dublin City Council to rename the park, correct, he encouraged the withdrawal of this proposal? Alexandra Herzog: That's correct. Both the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister actually issued statements saying that this proposal should not have come to even be considered, and that they should be withdrawn. And I'm very grateful for their leadership in that. And I think that it's important, though, to underline the fact that it is not, you know, just a global form of antisemitism, but that it is really an expressed form of antisemitism on the ground, really erasing Jewish history and blaming an entire Jewish population for what is happening miles and miles away is antisemitism. Manya Brachear Pashman: So what are you hearing from the tiny Jewish community there? Are you in touch with people there? Do you still have relatives who live in Ireland? Alexandra Herzog: I sadly don't have relatives there anymore, but I am in contact with the Jewish community. And I think that, you know, it's a community that really has a lot of pride in their Jewish history and their Irish history and in their Irish roots. I think there is a feeling, what I'm hearing from them, that there is a bit of a mix of fatigue also, and of anxiety. And you know this, we're talking, as we said before, about a very small community, about 3000 Jews. It's a close knit community that has contributed far beyond its size to Irish society. They love Ireland, and they feel deeply Irish, but in the past years, and especially since October 7, they have felt increasingly targeted, and they often have felt exposed, misunderstood. So I think that incidents like the proposed renaming of the park lands particularly hard because it's not abstract. It's a park that's in their neighborhood, that's next to their children's school, and bearing the name of someone who for them symbolizes their connection to Ireland. So to see this name singled out really sends a chilling message that, you know, Jewish presence, Jewish history are negotiable. Manya Brachear Pashman: You know, we talked about similar issues when we talked about your maternal grandfather in Sudan and the erasure of Jewish history across the Middle East and North Africa in these countries where Jews fled. Would you say that there are parallels here? Or is that, is that an unfair statement? Is that taking it too far? Alexandra Herzog: I mean, I think that, in general, the notion of commemoration, the notion of really talking about one's history is, is a problematic one, when those commemorations, or those celebrations of memory, of Jewish memory and Jewish impact, are being erased because of the connection with Israel. And when people use the platform to accuse Israel of genocide, they distort history. They weaponize really Jewish suffering. I think that there is something to be said there. And, you know, it's the same idea as, you know, removing a Jewish name from a park in order to make that political point about Israel. I think that it is something that we're seeing way too much. It is a very slippery slope, and it's something that we should be 100% avoiding. Because Jewish memory, whether it be, you know, like a commemoration about like, what happened to Jews from our fleeing Arab lands, what happened during the Holocaust, anything that has to do with Jewish memory, it needs to be preserved. It needs to be honored on its own terms. It cannot be repurposed or overwritten to serve certain political narratives or even certain political accusations that like the ones that we're hearing right now, to me, that is very deeply troubling, and it's something that Jewish communities worldwide, I think, are experiencing more and more unfortunately. Manya Brachear Pashman: So I wanted to ask you, your grandfather passed away in 1997. This park was named two years earlier. Was he present for that dedication? Alexandra Herzog: Yeah, unfortunately, he wasn't able to attend the inauguration. He was still alive, that's true when the park was named, and he was deeply touched by the gesture. I think that for him, it really symbolized a bit of a full circle somehow. You know, the Irish boy who became President of Israel, who's being honored in the neighborhood where his story really began. I think that there was something very powerful and beautiful about it. For the 100th anniversary of my grandfather's birth in 2018 the family actually went to the park and got the dedication plaque up. And you know, that was a very meaningful event. Manya Brachear Pashman: It must be heartbreaking for you to know that they want to tear that plaque down now. Alexandra Herzog: I know how proud my grandfather was of his Irish roots. I know the work that my great-grandfather did in Ireland for Irish independence. And I think that it's completely uncalled for right now to rewrite history and to pretend that our family's story has no place in this country that meant so much for two generations of my family, and really even as a statement for Israel. My grandfather always, you know, talked about Ireland, and really always had this pride. So it touches very deeply. I think it really gives the very wrong message to young Jews and children who are growing up in a country where they are such a minority, I think that we have to put things in perspective a little bit. And, you know, I imagine being a kid and seeing like the name of somebody who maybe symbolizes something for you, their name being removed.It sends a message that really should not be out there in any kind of way and is not justified. Manya Brachear Pashman: You knew your grandfather. Did he share stories about his childhood, and was there anything as you were standing in that park that reflected those stories? Alexandra Herzog: Yeah, I had the very big privilege to know my grandfather very well, to spend a lot of time with him. I'm his first grandchild, so we spent a lot of time together. We shared a deep passion together for history, for literature, for politics, but also for nature. For me, before any before being a public figure, he really was my grandfather, my Saba. Someone who was warm, who was funny, who was very present as a grandfather, who would take me to the garden and show me all of his fruit trees that he was so very proud. And I had this feeling, I mean, the park, this park is very small. It's a tiny, you know, it's a tiny park, but somehow is so meaningful to him. And I know that he loved living in that neighborhood. It was very hard for him to leave Ireland and, you know, go to what was then Palestine. So it's something that I really felt very strongly when I was there, and that I think that our family thinks about often. Manya Brachear Pashman: Well, Alexandra, I am so glad that the Dublin City Council tabled this proposal for the time being. And I appreciate you sharing some memories about your grandfather and putting this in perspective for our listeners. Alexandra Herzog: Thank you very much. It was an honor. Manya Brachear Pashman: You can hear the story of Alexandra Herzog's maternal grandfather Nissim Gaon and the challenges he and his family faced in Sudan in the first season of our award-winning series The Forgotten Exodus. In 12 episodes, we also share the erased or often-forgotten stories of Jewish families who left or were driven from their homes in the Middle East and North Africa. And don't forget to listen to our most recent series about reconciliation in the region: Architects of Peace: The Abraham Accords Story.
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Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/oQeUePfTrEQThe Royal Historical Society Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture.In April 1945, British forces liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and arrested its commandant, Josef Kramer. What followed was the first post-war trial for war crimes - a landmark event that captured the world's attention. Although later eclipsed by the Nuremberg Trials, the Belsen Trial marked a pivotal moment in confronting Nazi atrocities and establishing a framework for justice after the Holocaust.For Lord Daniel Finkelstein, the story of Belsen is deeply personal. Among those imprisoned and starved in the camp were his mother and grandmother - his grandmother did not survive. In this lecture, Lord Finkelstein will recount the story of the Belsen Trial, exploring how it brought the horrors of the concentration camps to light and how it continues to shape his understanding of law, justice, and moral responsibility.This lecture was recorded by Lord Daniel Finkelstein on the 4th of November 2025 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London.Daniel William Finkelstein, Baron Finkelstein, OBE (born 30 August 1962) is a British journalist, author, political advisor and politician. He is a former executive editor of The Times, where he remains a weekly political columnist, and has been a regular columnist at The Jewish Chronicle since 2010. Finkelstein was formerly an advisor to Prime Minister John Major and leader of the Conservative Party William Hague. Since 2013 he has sat as a Conservative Peer of the House of Lords.The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/minor-criminalGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/Website: https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter: https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollegeSupport the show
Vielmehr zeigen solche Orte, “was passieren kann, wenn wir uns nicht respektieren”, sagt Jörg Skriebeleit, Leiter der KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg.
El escritor madrileño Andrés Barba nos presenta su nueva y ambiciosa novela, Auge y caída del conejo Bam (Ed. Anagrama), fábula política con la que aspira a hacer más inteligible el aluvión de cambios que ha puesto patas arriba el tablero internacional en la última década. Desde la desconfianza hacia las instituciones, hasta el triunfo de la posverdad, pasando por el populismo, la polarización social y la militarización de la vida pública, que quedan plasmadas en esta historia confirmando su talento para indagar en los pliegues de nuestra conciencia íntima a la vez que en los engranajes de la sociedad. Luego, Javier Lostalé abre su ventanita a la Corriente invisible del poeta Antonio Luis Ginés, que acaba de publicar en la editorial Bartleby.En su sección, Ignacio Elguero nos recomienda otros libros: Astillas, una historia de amor diferente (Ed. Anagrama), en el que la estadounidense Leslie Jamison disecciona el desmoronamiento de su matrimonio y los retos de la crianza en solitario y ¿Sueño que vivo? (Ed. Papeles mínimos), en el que Karin Berger recoge los recuerdos de la austríaca Ceija Stokja, quien siendo ya una anciana le relata su experiencia como niña gitana en el campo de concentración de Bergen-Belsen.Además, Sergio C. Fanjul se nos pone existencialista al hilo de ¿Por qué? La finalidad del universo (Ed. Bauplan), ensayo exigente pero también risueño en el que el filósofo Philip Goff se pregunta, entre otras cosas, cuál es el sentido de nuestra vida. Comentamos, también, otros títulos relacionados con el tema: Universo y sentido. En busca del sentido en la inmensidad (Ed. Anagrama), de Norbert Bilbeny y La seducción del encanto (Ed.Herder), de Miquel Seguró.Terminamos el programa en compañía de Mariano Peyrou, que esta vez nos habla de En esta red sonora. Fragmentos literarios 1995-2025 (Ed. Galaxia Gutenberg), volumen en el que Vicente Luis Mora recoge textos de lo más variado: reflexiones ensayísticas, aforismos, poemas o pasajes poéticos, juegos con el lenguaje y entradas de diario sobre cuestiones cotidianas.Escuchar audio
For Albert Pierrepoint, execution was a family affair. His father and uncle were hangmen and from the 1940s until the late 1950s Albert was Britain's "Number One" executioner. Which meant he was the one sent to hang the Nazis who ran the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of the war.Who was Albert Pierrepoint? What does it take to be able to execute hundreds of people? And what is 'The Drop'?Edited and produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.Please vote for us for Listeners' Choice at the British Podcast Awards! Follow this link, and don't forget to confirm the email. Thank you!You can now watch After Dark on Youtube! www.youtube.com/@afterdarkhistoryhitSign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. You can take part in our listener survey here.All music from Epidemic Sounds.After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal is a History Hit podcast.
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany was the only camp liberated by the British Forces in April, 1945. Prior to that, over 50,000 people were murdered there. After liberation, the British Forces, alongside the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) set up another camp about 2km away, the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons (DP) Camp, the largest DP camp in Europe, where over 2,000 babies were born. Known as ‘Bergen-Belsen Babies', Susan Schwartz and Karen Lasky were two of the many born there and still hold the label ‘stateless' after their families were eventually accepted and immigrated to Canada. On the 80th anniversary of the liberation, survivors and Bergen-Belsen Babies gather for the week, trying to fill in the gaps of what happened to their families and reflect on their childhoods. This episode of The Documentary, comes to you from Heart and Soul, exploring personal approaches to spirituality from around the world.
The Nazis invade Poland. The young, cheerful and zestful Sonja Stahlhammer (born Zysa Mariem Kohn) is forced together with her family and relatives into the Łódź Ghetto where most of them die of disease, starvation, executions or are deported to Auschwitz. The only members of Sonja's family who are alive at the liquidation of the Ghetto are Sonja and her little brother Heniuś. They are sent in overcrowded cattle wagons to Auschwitz where Heniuś is killed. Sonja is sent to Ravensbrück, then to Dachau, on to Mühlhausen and finally to Bergen-Belsen. After the war, she ends up in Sweden where she meets Mischa who has also been deprived of his family and friends in the German extermination camps. Sonja's Journey tells the story of what a Jewish girl had to go through before, during and after World War II. And how love gives her the will to live again and the power to create a new life in a foreign country. Sonja has written Sonja's Journey together with her son Semmy Stahlhammer. Semmy was First Concertmaster at the Royal Opera in Stockholm for 25 years. Today he runs Stahlhammer Violin & Musik Atelier and leads the Stahlhammer Klezmer Trio. Semmy has written the book Codename Barber about his father Mischa's experiences during World War II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
The Nazis invade Poland. The young, cheerful and zestful Sonja Stahlhammer (born Zysa Mariem Kohn) is forced together with her family and relatives into the Łódź Ghetto where most of them die of disease, starvation, executions or are deported to Auschwitz. The only members of Sonja's family who are alive at the liquidation of the Ghetto are Sonja and her little brother Heniuś. They are sent in overcrowded cattle wagons to Auschwitz where Heniuś is killed. Sonja is sent to Ravensbrück, then to Dachau, on to Mühlhausen and finally to Bergen-Belsen. After the war, she ends up in Sweden where she meets Mischa who has also been deprived of his family and friends in the German extermination camps. Sonja's Journey tells the story of what a Jewish girl had to go through before, during and after World War II. And how love gives her the will to live again and the power to create a new life in a foreign country. Sonja has written Sonja's Journey together with her son Semmy Stahlhammer. Semmy was First Concertmaster at the Royal Opera in Stockholm for 25 years. Today he runs Stahlhammer Violin & Musik Atelier and leads the Stahlhammer Klezmer Trio. Semmy has written the book Codename Barber about his father Mischa's experiences during World War II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies
The Nazis invade Poland. The young, cheerful and zestful Sonja Stahlhammer (born Zysa Mariem Kohn) is forced together with her family and relatives into the Łódź Ghetto where most of them die of disease, starvation, executions or are deported to Auschwitz. The only members of Sonja's family who are alive at the liquidation of the Ghetto are Sonja and her little brother Heniuś. They are sent in overcrowded cattle wagons to Auschwitz where Heniuś is killed. Sonja is sent to Ravensbrück, then to Dachau, on to Mühlhausen and finally to Bergen-Belsen. After the war, she ends up in Sweden where she meets Mischa who has also been deprived of his family and friends in the German extermination camps. Sonja's Journey tells the story of what a Jewish girl had to go through before, during and after World War II. And how love gives her the will to live again and the power to create a new life in a foreign country. Sonja has written Sonja's Journey together with her son Semmy Stahlhammer. Semmy was First Concertmaster at the Royal Opera in Stockholm for 25 years. Today he runs Stahlhammer Violin & Musik Atelier and leads the Stahlhammer Klezmer Trio. Semmy has written the book Codename Barber about his father Mischa's experiences during World War II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies
During World War II, several thousand women served as concentration camp guards in Nazi Germany, particularly within the SS women’s auxiliary. These female guards—known as Aufseherinnen—were deployed mainly in camps like Ravensbrück (a women's camp), Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Majdanek. Recruited largely from working-class backgrounds, many were trained at Ravensbrück before being assigned to other camps. … Continue reading Episode 460: SS Women – Female Concentration Camp Guards
Kate Adie presents stories from Syria, the US-Mexico border, Poland and Germany.As Syria tries to rebuild after the fall of Assad, a wave of sectarian violence is fuelling suspicion between communities, and long-held grievances are proving a thorny issue for the country's new leadership. Lucy Williamson travelled to Syria's coastal region, where minority Alawite communities recently came under attack.In Texas, many Hispanic voters came out in support for Donald Trump in last year's election. Now he is back in the White House, his hard-line approach to immigration is leading some voters to have second thoughts, says Nomia Iqbal. who travelled to the Rio Grande river along the US-Mexico border.Sitting on the border of Ukraine and Russia, Poland has pledged to up its military spending this year, and is also rolling out military training for civilians. Will Vernon visited a military training camp - but found not everyone is keen to enrol.And in Germany, Amie Liebowitz has been to a reunion of pensioners born at the Bergen-Belsen camp, around the time allied forces liberated Nazi concentration camps. While there, she also traced her own family's history, and story of survival.
As the country marks VE Day later this week, we hear from one of the few living voices who can still speak to the harsh reality of World War II. Mervyn Kersh is 100 years old and one of the last surviving British soldiers to have taken part in the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944.A Jewish man from London, Mervyn felt a deep personal duty to join the fight against the Nazis — not just for his country, but for his people. He shares his extraordinary memories of the war, describes meeting Bergen-Belsen inmates and the moment victory in Europe was declared.In this special episode of The Daily T, Camilla speaks to Mervyn in his North London home about witnessing history, anti-semitism then and now, and the importance of sharing his stories, 80 years on.Producer: Georgia Coan and Lilian FawcettPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsSocial Media Producer: Rachel DuffyCamera Operator: Andy WatsonVideo Editor: Andy MackenizeOriginal music by Goss Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
L'histoire bouleversante d'Yvonne Salamon née dans le camp de concentration de Bergen-Belsen. Pendant les six mois qu'elle passe dans le camp, la petite Yvonne, ne pleure jamais… Elle est restée cachée en silence, contre le sein de sa mère. Les SS ne savent pas qu'elle est née.Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
L'histoire bouleversante d'Yvonne Salamon née dans le camp de concentration de Bergen-Belsen. Pendant les six mois qu'elle passe dans le camp, la petite Yvonne, ne pleure jamais… Elle est restée cachée en silence, contre le sein de sa mère. Les SS ne savent pas qu'elle est née.Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
L'histoire bouleversante d'Yvonne Salamon née dans le camp de concentration de Bergen-Belsen. Pendant les six mois qu'elle passe dans le camp, la petite Yvonne, ne pleure jamais… Elle est restée cachée en silence, contre le sein de sa mère. Les SS ne savent pas qu'elle est née.Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
Israel blockiert Einlieferung von Nahrung und Medikamenten in den Gazastreifen, Bundeswehr soll erstmals "Kamikaze-Drohnen" erhalten, CSU-Chef Söder warnt vor einer Aufweichung der Brandmauer zur AfD, Mindestens 28 Tote nach schwerer Explosion in iranischer Hafenstadt, Ein Autofahrer rast im kanadischen Vancouver in ein Straßenfest der philippinischen Gemeinschaft, Spanien leidet auch sechs Monate nach Jahrhunderflut in Valencia unter den Folgen, Nach Beisetzung von Papst Franziskus ist dessen Grab erstmals für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich, Gedenken in Bergen-Belsen 80 Jahre nach KZ-Befreiung, Frauen des FC Bayern München zum siebten Mal Deutscher Fußball-Meister, 31. Spieltag der Fußball-Bundesliga, Das Wetter Hinweis: Der Beitrag zum Thema Bundesliga darf aus rechtlichen Gründen nicht auf tagesschau.de gezeigt werden. Korrektur: Die Sendung wurde nachträglich bearbeitet
The Film by Martin Jameson April 1945. A Ministry of Information army film crew enters Bergen-Belsen to record the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust that many were already refusing to believe. But faced with all this footage, the head of the unit - Sidney Bernstein, is overwhelmed. He needs to get a film out there as soon as possible, but how to do justice to such suffering? So he summons his friend Alfred Hitchcock from Hollywood. And Bernstein - who later establishes Granada Television - determines that together they can create an irrefutable cinematic testimony. Sidney Bernstein - Henry Goodman, Alfred Hitchcock - Jeremy Swift, Richard Crossman - Geoffrey Streatfeild, Mrs Haig - Fenella Woolgar, Secretary - Hamilton Berstock. Production Co-ordinator - Vicky Moseley, Sound Design - Sharon Hughes, Technical Producer - Peter Ringrose, Studio Manager - Alison Craig and Producer/ Director - Gary Brown.A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4.With grateful thanks to documentary film maker Jane Wells, daughter of Sidney Bernstein, who generously helped with the research for this drama.
Why was there a women's orchestra in Auschwitz, and what can that help us understand human resilience? In this deeply moving episode of the show, I speak with Anne Sebba — renowned biographer, historian, and journalist — about one of the Holocaust's most extraordinary and little-known stories: the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Anne's latest book tells the story of how a group of female prisoners were forced to form an orchestra in one of the most brutal Nazi concentration camps. They played not for celebration or escape, but as part of the machinery of terror — and yet, through music, they found a way to survive. As Anne shares, her journey into this story began with a startling personal discovery: her father was present at Bergen-Belsen shortly after its liberation. That visceral connection led her to uncover the story of Alma Rosé, the orchestra's conductor and the niece of Gustav Mahler, who used discipline and musical brilliance to save lives. We talk about the complexities of human behaviour, the ethical dilemmas of survival, and the way music — even when twisted into a tool of torture — remained a powerful expression of the human spirit. We also explore how Anne approached telling this story as someone who is neither a survivor nor the child of survivors. She explains the challenges of working with conflicting testimonies, the emotional toll of researching this subject, and why she took piano lessons while writing the book. Above all, this episode is about the resilience of the women who played in the orchestra, and the importance of telling stories that allow us to see history not just in abstract terms, but through individual lives.
Warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of the Holocaust and genocide, which some listeners may find upsetting.80 years ago, British troops liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The horrors they witnessed would haunt them for the rest of their lives.Bestselling author and journalist Thomas Harding joins us to revisit this harrowing day, describing the camp's unimaginable conditions and the fates of the people held there. He also provides some necessary reflection on the complexities of the British response.Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.You can hear more about the history of Auschwitz and the concentration camp system here - https://shows.acast.com/dansnowshistoryhit/episodes/a-history-of-auschwitz.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.We'd love to hear your feedback - you can take part in our podcast survey here: https://insights.historyhit.com/history-hit-podcast-always-on.You can also email the podcast directly at ds.hh@historyhit.com.
Irma Grese “The Hyena of Auschwitz” entered Adolph Hitler's concentration camps at the age of 18 as one of the most feared females in Nazi Germany. Before she was 20 years old, Grese became legendary for her insatiable cruelty and salacious liaisons, an alleged predator and sadist. Even Nazi supervisors were forced to curtail her brutal behavior. Irma Grese hailed from a small farming village. Her life's goal was to become a nurse. Instead, she was a female guard in the most notorious concentration camps of the Third Reich. As WWII raged, so did Irma Grese's behavior. When arrested and imprisoned she continued to be defiant to the last seconds of her life at age 22. No media has captured the complete TRUE STORY of Irma Grese. Too many documents contain regurgitated, unreferenced information. Numerous myths and fallacies exist about the fascinating and terrifying Irma Grese—Until now. IRMA GRESE: Becoming "The Hyena of Auschwitz"—Judith A. Yates Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697978510Check out TRUE MURDER PODCAST @ truemurderpodcast.com
Virginie Girod raconte le parcours d'Anne Frank, 80 ans après sa disparition dans les camps de la mort nazis. Dans le deuxième épisode de ce double récit d'Au cœur de l'Histoire, alors que la guerre se poursuit, Anne Frank (1929-1945) et sa famille vivent cachés dans l'Annexe. Chaque jour, Anne noircit les pages de son journal qu'elle surnomme Kitty. Mais en août 1944, les clandestins sont dénoncés et arrêtés. Déportés à Auschwitz, puis à Bergen-Belsen, Anne Frank meurt au début de l'année 1945. Seul Otto, son père, reviendra des camps de la mort. Il publiera les écrits de sa fille, "Le journal d'Anne Frank", immense succès littéraire.
Full Text of ReadingsFriday after Ash Wednesday Lectionary: 221The Saint of the day is Saints Perpetua and FelicitySaints Perpetua and Felicity's Story “When my father in his affection for me was trying to turn me from my purpose by arguments and thus weaken my faith, I said to him, ‘Do you see this vessel—water pot or whatever it may be? Can it be called by any other name than what it is?' ‘No,' he replied. ‘So also I cannot call myself by any other name than what I am—a Christian.'” So writes Perpetua: young, beautiful, well-educated, a noblewoman of Carthage in North Africa, mother of an infant son and chronicler of the persecution of the Christians by Emperor Septimius Severus. Perpetua's mother was a Christian and her father a pagan. He continually pleaded with her to deny her faith. She refused and was imprisoned at 22. In her diary, Perpetua describes her period of captivity: “What a day of horror! Terrible heat, owing to the crowds! Rough treatment by the soldiers! To crown all, I was tormented with anxiety for my baby…. Such anxieties I suffered for many days, but I obtained leave for my baby to remain in the prison with me, and being relieved of my trouble and anxiety for him, I at once recovered my health, and my prison became a palace to me and I would rather have been there than anywhere else.” Despite threats of persecution and death, Perpetua, Felicity–a slavewoman and expectant mother–and three companions, Revocatus, Secundulus and Saturninus, refused to renounce their Christian faith. For their unwillingness, all were sent to the public games in the amphitheater. There Perpetua and Felicity were beheaded, and the others killed by beasts. Felicity gave birth to a daughter a few days before the games commenced. Perpetua's record of her trial and imprisonment ends the day before the games. “Of what was done in the games themselves, let him write who will.” The diary was finished by an eyewitness. Reflection Persecution for religious beliefs is not confined to Christians in ancient times. Consider Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who with her family, was forced into hiding and later died in Bergen-Belsen, one of Hitler's death camps during World War II. Anne, like Perpetua and Felicity, endured hardship and suffering and finally death because she committed herself to God. In her diary, Anne writes, “It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground, and maintain our opinions, in a time when all ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God.” Saint Perpetua is the Patron Saint of: WidowsMothers of Deceased Sons Learn more about Saints Perpetua and Felicity! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media
80 years ago, in early 1945, 15-year-old Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic in the Nazi German-based concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. As the 7500 square foot replica of the Otto Frank family secret annex in Amsterdam opens in New York City, writer Ruth Franklin is publishing her new biography called "The Many Lives of Anne Frank." According to Franklin, the title of the book refers to the multiplicity of ways in which Anne Frank has been understood and misunderstood. Anne Frank's diary is one of the best-selling non-fiction books of all time. Reportedly over 30 million copies have been sold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
80 years ago, in early 1945, 15-year-old Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic in the Nazi German-based concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. As the 7500 square foot replica of the Otto Frank family secret annex in Amsterdam opens in New York City, writer Ruth Franklin is publishing her new biography called "The Many Lives of Anne Frank." According to Franklin, the title of the book refers to the multiplicity of ways in which Anne Frank has been understood and misunderstood. Anne Frank's diary is one of the best-selling non-fiction books of all time. Reportedly over 30 million copies have been sold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices