Our pets are the only thing keeping us sane during this pandemic. We briefly ponder the family status of our pets...are they our pseudo siblings? Parents? Children? Eventually, we keep things light by talking about some good crimes. Nathalie starts us off with the story of Emma Goldman, a political activist and writer. Goldman was an anarchist who championed for women’s and worker’s rights. She illegally distributed information about birth control and was arrested many times for her protests. Rachel tells the story of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who smuggled children out of German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. She was arrested by the Gestapo and tortured, but she refused to give up the names of the children or her associates.
Music by Joseph McDade www.patreon.com/josephmcdade/posts
Nathalie's Sources
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/MeetEmmaGoldman/birthcontrolpioneer.html
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/birth-control-pioneer-arrested
https://jwa.org/womenofvalor/goldman/womens-rights/birth-control
https://time.com/4208056/emma-goldman-1916-birth-control/
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/february-11/
https://muvs.org/en/topics/pioneers/emma-goldman-1869-1940-en/
Rachel's Sources:
Irena Sendler
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/irena-sendler
Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project, by Jack Mayer
https://www.jackmayer.net/life-in-a-jar
Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, is Dead at 98, by Dennis Hevesi
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/world/europe/13sendler.html
Irena Sendler, Polish Social Worker, by The Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Irena-Sendler
Irena Sendler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler
