Podcasts about lodz ghetto

In the summer of 1939 there was a little girl living in Lodz, Poland who was looking forward to the first grade. It was while on the family summer vacation that Eva Unterman heard her family members quietly talking about Germany and war. They cut short their vacation and went home to Lodz and soon little Eva was looking at black, shiny boots. The German invasion of Poland was underway. Eva's family was forced into the Lodz Ghetto. After four years in the ghetto they were deported to Auschwitz, Stutthof and a labor camp in Dresden and then marched to Theresienstadt. This march is referred to as the Death March. It was May 1945 when Eva and her parents were liberated.The German Third Reich took the lives of three million Polish Jews in World War II. Only a small number survived or managed to escape. And today, survivor Eva Unterman, now an Oklahoman, tells her story to honor the millions of children whose lives were cut short by the Nazis, and to be sure the Holocaust shall never happen again!Eva's granddaughter Phoebe has written a children's book Through Eva's Eyes about her grandmother's early life in Poland.

Joshua Blustein, who has published scholarship on the economics and currency of the Lodz Ghetto, shares how Holocaust museums and research centers today have been diluting their Holocaust Jewish content in favor of a broader multicultural approach. This new focus minimizes the political antisemitism of the Holocaust and the lessons from that unprecedented genocide.

Our featured interview this week is with David (Dovid) Lenga, who recently turned 95, is originally from Łódź, Poland (לאָדזש), and now lives in Los Angeles. He survived the Lodz Ghetto as well as Auschwitz. He recently wrote an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times on anti-semitism: As a Holocaust survivor, the most important thing I can do is share my story He frequently talks about his history as a survivor of the Holocaust at Holocaust Museum LA and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. We spent a time talking about these activities, as well as about many aspects of his very long and very interesting life. Music: Wolf Krakowski: Yeder Ruft Mikh Ziamele Leyke Post: Yidish Redt Zikh Azoy Sheyn Shifee Lovitt: Yiddish/Vaserl Tsimmes: Oyfn Pripetshik Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air date: January 4, 2023

'Give me your children' is one of the most harrowing and disturbing speeches in history, It was delivered by Chief Elder and Nazi appointed representative of the Jews in the Lodź ghetto, Chaim Rumkowski. In the speech, Rumkowski announces that children under ten, the elderly, and the sick and infirm will be handed over to the Nazis to fulfill deportation demands, in order to save the rest of the ghetto. Holocaust survivor Abram Goldberg was in the ghetto's main square on that terrible day, and heard the speech and the screams of the crowd. In this episode he talks about Rumkowski, the leader's controversial and tarnished reputation, as well as Abram's own incredible story of survival, including a heart breaking promise to his mother at the train station at Auschwitz. Assisting 97 year old Abram in our interview is Fiona Harris, the co-author of his recent memoir, 'The Strength of Hope' (Affirm Press, 2022). Fiona has written children's books and co-produced and starred in the hit series, 'The Drop Off'. The reenactment of Rumkowski's speech is voiced by Tobias Menzies (The Crown, Outlander, Game of Thrones for Almeida Theatre's 'Figure of Speech' series. It is on YouTube Speakola is made entirely by Tony and supported by listeners. There is a Patreon page which you can join If you want to offer Tony regular support. Also welcome credit card donations,  which can be monthly or one off. Subscribe to our newsletter if you want a fortnightly email setting out great speeches by theme. Speakola is sponsored by DocPlay. Sign up here for 45 days free on the world's best documentary streaming site, then if you choose to continue, $7.99/m. The documentary 'A Film Unfinished' about a Nazi propaganda film in the Warsaw ghetto is excellent. Tony will share photos and write about his day with Abram and Fiona for his writer blog, Good one, Wilson. Email comments or ideas to tony@speakola.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Special feature in Yiddish: Remembering Jewish Lodz Poland and commemorating the Lodz Ghetto

As early as 1933, Hitler and the Nazis - the National Socialist German Worker's Party - began passing a series of discriminatory laws against Jews— inch by inch, chipping away at their freedoms. They took away their property. Their ability to practice certain jobs or exist in public places. They took away their ability to own pets or walk around without a badge identifying them as Jews.And they did all this while the world watched. While everyone hoped that maybe they'd finally just stop with all their mindless hate. But instead, they just kept pushing it further, and further, and further. Soon, the Nazi's began deporting Jews. Sending them out of Germany and to various labor camps. Then, the plan changed from one of deportation to genocide, and concentration camps were constructed to efficiently kill massive amounts of people. The majority of people deported to these new death camps were transported in cattle wagons. These wagons - traveling along train tracks - didn't have water, food, a toilet, or ventilation. Sometimes there weren't enough cars for a major transport, so victims waited at a switching yard, often with standing room only, for several days.  Stewing in their own filth, fear, confusion and hunger. Sometimes, when the train made it to the concentration camp, and the transport doors were opened, everyone inside was already dead. Today we explore and explain the holocaust. How it happened and why, in a very dark, genocidal edition of Timesuck. Bad Magic Productions Monthly Patreon Donation:  The Bad Magic Charity for May is the HALO Dental Network. Founded by Dr. Brady Smith, HALO Dental Network is a coalition of dental professionals who donate their services to the dental underserved. Services include dental implants, veneers, fillings and crowns. If you want to learn more, please visit halodentalnetwork.orgNot only can you donate, you can also nominate someone you know who is in need. Thanks to those who helped us donate $14,300 this month! TICKETS FOR HOT WET BAD MAGIC SUMMER CAMP!  Go to www.badmagicmerch.comWatch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8QeveQXLd3QMerch: https://www.badmagicmerch.comDiscord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89vWant to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever happens to be our most current page :)For all merch related questions/problems: store@badmagicproductions.com (copy and paste)Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcastWanna become a Space Lizard?  Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcastSign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

In this light, fun, and supersized bonus episode, Rachel and Tracy throwback to the 80's and 90's featuring special guest and pop culture expert Adam Norenberg! Adam and Rachel proudly sing the concluding lines of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song, while Tracy reveals the life-changing moment she discovered Degrassi Junior High in her middle school health class. Rachel acknowledges her undying and slightly problematic love of Saved by the Bell heartthrob Zack Morris, Adam and Tracy discuss the CDs that shaped their adolescence, and all three dive into music, movies, and more in the Season 2 Finale of Isn't it Lovely? Episode Mentions: Abercrombie - www.abercrombie.com Rywka's Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto by Rywka Lipszyc and Anita Friedman Ninja Rap Vanilla Ice Music Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_K6971WmAs Cell Phone in a Bag - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Bag_Phone#:~:text=The%20Motorola%20Bag%20Phone%20is,from%201988%20to%202000. Open Space Event Hall Website: https://www.openspaceforrent.com/

Professor Ellie (Elke) Kellman of Brandeis University discusses her research on the radical Yiddish press in the America of the late 19th and early 20th century. Ellie Kellman researches and writes about modern Yiddish literature and literary history, specializing in the history of the Yiddish periodical press and publishing industry. Her book-in-progress is entitled Reading the New Country: Abraham Cahan and the Invention of American Jewish Popular Culture. She is Associate Professor of Yiddish at Brandeis University, where she teaches Yiddish language and literature and modern Jewish literature. The interview is conducted by Sholem Beinfeld, a regular contributor to The Yiddish Voice, co-Editor in Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, and Professor of History, Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis. Our friend and cohost Dovid Braun provided an announcement after the interview, namely, the following links to the Ellie Kellman lecture of July 13, 2020, for the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Bard College. Prof. Ellen Kellman: Abraham Cahan's Early Experiments in Yiddish Journalism / אַב. קאַהנס ערשטע ליטעראַרישע עקספּערימענטן https://yivo.org/YCLS2020-Kellman https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KhAJY3wSPFA To observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we played three recordings of Holocaust survivors from the Yiddish Voice archives: Rochel Zicherman, a survivor originally from a small village in Carpathian Ruthenia in Czechoslovakia, who survived Auschwitz (recorded in 2019); Dovid Lenga, a survivor originally from Lodz, Poland, who survived the Lodz Ghetto as well as Auschwitz (recorded in 2020); and Anna Monka ע״ה, a survivor originally from Lida, Poland, a former Bielski partisan, who sings the partisan song Zog Nit Keymol (recorded 2009) Music: Music: Di Shvue, anthem of the Bund, performed by a youth choir led by Zalmen Mlotek Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Air Date: January 27, 2021

In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, and to commemorate a year saturated in grief, we're re-releasing our deeply personal episode on Henryk Ross's photographs of the Lodz Ghetto. We should all be so moved to explore the beauty of individual stories of the lives lived that get swept away in statistics and tribalism. And perhaps we should allow ourselves to feel their loss all the more by doing so. Memory Unearthed: Henryk Ross's Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto was on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from March to July, 2017. See the images: www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…-lodz-ghetto Music used: The Blue Dot Sessions, "Doghouse", "Drone Pine", "Drone Birch", "3rd Chair", "Our Fingers Cold" Support the show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Cover art: 1922 painting by David Friedmann.To learn more about David Friedmann and his artwork:www.davidfriedmann.orghttps://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/last_portrait/friedmann.asphttps://www.visitnorman.com/events/testimony-the-life-and-work-of-david-friedmanhttps://www.jewishgen.org/austriaczech/wall-of-fame/friedmann.htmlhttps://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh_friedmann/?fbclid=IwAR3xrdcUEDhSyMckJDFBEXIPmWAsS8ALOGmtOPdCkMX8uX2nM175CnQ6p9https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFh748qS5Y&fbclid=IwAR18E_o43rumDGLs02G8S6__K-Ocj8ij0JYdoIZs5r9stRajVzHNpgatQOsTo view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.Show Notes:1:45 Studied with German painter/printmaker Lovis Corinth and German Etcher Hermann Struck 2:40 Chess portraits; press artist of celebrities, artists, political figures, etc.2:50 Lodz Ghetto then Auschwitz5:00 Haval River painting11:20  Lodz Ghetto Chronicle header - Friedmann's sketch of Lodz Ghetto Bridge12:30 Austrian Writer Oskar Rosenfeld wrote about Friedmann13:40 Jewish Museum in Prague14:00 Auschwitz Museum donation  of Polish prisoner portrait18:40 Berlin's Centrum Judaicum Synagogue exhibited  Polish Prisoner sketch 20:30 1943 sketches of hat factory survived23:00 Researcher Eva Wiater located album with 33 colorized drawings at  Jewish Historical Institute 37:00 Artwork surfaced in France marked with number that indicates  auction  38:50 Buffalo, New York gallery  gifted Friedman works  44:00 Friedmann claimed 800 missing works in restitution claims, but later indicates 2,000 works went missing48:00 Friedmann rebuilt  life in  U.S. and created billboards; retired to paint Holocaust works49:00 During Czech exhibition in  1946, Friedmann met  second wife, Hildegard Taussig 52:52 Friedmann  created Holocaust paintings in 1945-1946 after  liberation; Palestine office purchased some of these works, which toured in Palestine in 194753:15 During D.C. Jewish Holocaust Survivior's Conference in 1983, Miriam learned seven  are held by Yad Vashem and three are at Holocaust History Museum55:00 Etching by Friedmann dedicated to his violin teacher located 1:04:00 Long Island chess player's heirs donated some of Friedmann's chess portraits to  Cleveland Public Library1:05:00 2009 Holocaust Era Assets Conference Panel in Prague 1:07:30 Friedmann's two series of Holocaust paintings1:10:00 Sudeten Germans in Western Bohemia  required to visit Friedmann's Holocaust series and pay entry to receive food ration cards1:19:00 After  1962 retirement, Friedmann returned to the Holocaust paintings 1:27:00 Drawings of  Prague Jewish Community leaders survived; donated to Yad Vashem1:29:00 Album of portraits exchanged between friends/ col

This month Phil, Kate, Clive, Tony & Jon hear from Benj Till about the UK Jewish Film Festival 2020 and how it might look a little different this year. Professor Shirli Gilbert chats about her forthcoming talk at JW3 'South African Jews & the Israel-Apartheid Analogy' which explores the comparisons between the two political situations in both countries. John Carr OBE chats about his new book 'Escape From the Ghetto' which tells the amazing story of his father's flee from the Lodz Ghetto. Entrepreneur Yehuda Hecht has been inspired by the current lockdown situation to develop a new app - 'SelfieBook', which records family stories and history for the modern age. Our Rabbinic Thought For the Month comes from Rabbi Harvey Belovski of Golders Green United Synagogue.

In 1939, Eva was a happy six-year-old living with her parents in Lodz, Poland. She was looking forward to starting first grade. However, instead of starting school, Eva, along with her family, was forced into the Lodz Ghetto, in accordance with the occupying Nazis’ policy against Jews. After four years in the ghetto, the family was deported to Auschwitz, Stutthof and a labour camp in Dresden, and then marched to Theresienstadt. There, in May 1945, Eva and her parents were liberated. By the age of twelve, she had endured over five years of imprisonment, hunger, disease and forced labour.Eva is an educator, an activist educator and participant in her community in Tulsa, Oklahoma - passionate about the improvement of the human condition and children’s rights. Eva shares her insights and thoughts, informed by her experiences as a child, and her determination and commitment to tell her story and prevent further suffering and abuses of children and all people. A Guiding Grandmother to be sure! The Jewish Federation of Tulsa says of Eva: “In 1978, Eva stood in a Tulsa classroom and for the first time shared the story of her Holocaust experiences. Since then, she has told her story over and over to thousands of students. Her commitment to Holocaust education continued to deepen and evolve with the formation of the “Holocaust Educators Group,” the direction of Tulsa’s annual Interfaith Holocaust Commemoration, and the establishment of Tulsa’s Council for Holocaust Education. Eva Unterman has truly shaped the way our community understands, learns and commemorates the Holocaust”

Rose Fogel survived the Lodz Ghetto. She and her daughter Debbie Lewis visited the special exhibition "Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross" at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, and spoke with Peter Haskell about the personal impact of the exhibition.

On the occasion of a special exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Michael Glickman (Museum President & CEO) explores the history the Lodz Ghetto photographs of Henryk Ross, and special guest Michael Goldstein (Museum visitor) recounts the stunning experience of walking through the exhibition and encountering a photograph of his father in the ghetto. Interspersed throughout the episode are clips from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors Irene Sulzman, Rozalia Berke, and Brandla Small. Visit mjhnyc.org/memoryunearthed for more on this special exhibition. Stories Survive: Conversations is narrated by Peter Haskell and produced by the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. The Museum is New York's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget.

In this special episode, we look at the exhibition Memory Unearthed: Henryk Ross's Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto, and explore the Lodz ghetto specifically, Holocaust photography more generally, and the role our need for a good story has played in shaping our understanding of both. Memory Unearthed is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston until July 30, 2017 See the images: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/6/29/episode-20-henryk-rosss-photographs-of-the-lodz-ghetto Music Used: The Blue Dot Sessions, "Doghouse", "Drone Pine", "Drone Birch", "3rd Chair", "Our Fingers Cold"

This week we are joined by Kristen Gresh, curator of the new exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston: "Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross." This exhibit, now on display, tells the intimate story of life in the ghetto through the lens of one of the few individuals who survived it. Episode 0145 April 28, 2017 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

Jesse is joined by Laura Mandel, executive director of the Jewish Arts Collaborative, to discuss “Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross” with Kristen Gresh, the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. This upcoming exhibition tells the story of Henryk Ross, the bureaucratic photographer for the Jewish Administration inside Poland's Lodz Ghetto. Unofficially—and at great risk—Ross documented the complex realities of life under Nazi rule, from the relative privileges enjoyed by the elites to the deportation of thousands to death camps at Auschwitz and Chelmno. Hoping to preserve a historical record, Ross buried his negatives in 1944. He returned to them after Lodz's liberation, discovering more than half of the original 6,000 survived. We talk about how Ross was able to save these photos, how he took them and what photography means to us today. Find more on the exhibition here: http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/memory-unearthed

Go to the photo cut out of the man showing a concentration camp tattoo on his forearm. This man is Henry Wyrobnik. Henry was born in Lodz, Poland. He, his parents, siblings and many other family members were put into the Lodz Ghetto by the Nazis until August 1944, when he and his family were sent to Auschwitz. Henry shared some reflections of his experiences. As the Allied Armies approached, he and thousands of others were taken on a Death March beginning on Jan. 15, 1945. They were given only small amounts of bread. They marched for two weeks, day and night. If someone lagged behind or walked out of line, they were shot immediately by German soldiers. They were put on open coal trains, other trains were hooked on, and they spent two weeks on the train. They had nothing to eat but snow. In Czechoslovakia, people threw food to the trains as they went through the countryside, but the Czech people were shot by the SS, a quasi-military unit that serviced as Hitler’s personal guard, if they were caught throwing food. One hundred eight people were on Henry’s train, “packed like sardines,” and at the end only 35 remained. The train finally took them to Mauthausen. There they were forced to bury bodies in mass graves. In Mauthausen, they had no clothes, no food and were sitting in crowded barracks. At the end of three or four weeks, they were sent to Gunskirchen, a sub-camp of Mauthausen. At the end, Henry says they “spent three weeks without water to drink, living in the woods with mud so deep if you stepped into it, you would sink in.” Many people from other countries were also imprisoned there. They built barracks for 500 people, which were actually a gas chamber. On May 5, 1945, Gunskirschen was liberated and Henry was freed and eventually sent to a hospital to recuperate. He had lost his whole family, including his parents, one brother and two sisters. Henry met his wife, Dora, also a survivor, in a Displaced Persons (DP) Camp at Feldafing, Germany. They came to the U.S. in 1949, and he worked for Shillitos, a department store in Cincinnati. Later, he owned his own business and came to Dayton.

On December 20, 1964, historian Isaiah Trunk, a YIVO Research Associate and co-editor of the journals YIVO Annual and YIVO bleter, gave this interview to Sheftl Zak, host of YIVO’s radio program on WEVD, about his work researching the Lodz Ghetto and his book, Lodzher geto: a historishe un sotsyologishe ...

Leon Merrick's job delivering mail in the Lodz ghetto became all the more difficult over time as Nazi deportations to the extermination camps increased and he was often given the task of delivering notices for deportation.

Leon Merrick's job delivering mail in the Lodz ghetto became all the more difficult over time as Nazi deportations to the extermination camps increased and he was often given the task of delivering notices for deportation.