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Centropa GeschichtenS12E3: EpilogAm Neujahrstag 1950 begannen Paul und Anitta in einer Synagoge in der Abbey Road in Nordlondon ihr gemeinsames Leben. In den 1960er Jahren bestand Paul darauf, Wien zu besuchen. Aber warum, fragte seine Frau Anitta. „Um ein Gespenst zu töten“, sagte Paul.
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Von den 10.000 deutschen und österreichischen jüdischen Kindern, die mit dem legendären Kindertransport nach England in Sicherheit gebracht wurden, kamen rund 2.300 aus Wien. In dieser Podcast-Staffel folgen wir zwei verängstigten Teenagern, deren Eltern sie zum Bahnhof brachten und dann selbst versuchten zu fliehen.
Sieben SchauspielerInnen in Wien und sieben in...2024-11-2506 minCentropa GeschichtenS12E2: Annita's GeschichteEin paar Monate später brachten Anittas Eltern sie zum Bahnhof und schickten sie mit einem Kindertransport nach England. Aber würden ihre Eltern einen Ausweg finden?
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Von den 10.000 deutschen und österreichischen jüdischen Kindern, die mit dem legendären Kindertransport nach England in Sicherheit gebracht wurden, kamen rund 2.300 aus Wien. In dieser Podcast-Staffel folgen wir zwei verängstigten Teenagern, deren Eltern sie zum Bahnhof brachten und dann selbst versuchten zu fliehen.
Sieben SchauspielerInnen in Wien und sieben in London lesen Briefe, Postkarten, Berichte und Interviews, die einem das Herz brechen und einen...2024-11-2519 minCentropa GeschichtenS12E1: Paul's GeschichteWir beginnen diese Episode im zweiten Wiener Gemeindebezirk im Jahr 1938. Aus einer Wohnung in der Springergasse schickte ein 15-jähriger jüdischer Junge einen Brief nach England, in dem er um Hilfe bat.
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Von den 10.000 deutschen und österreichischen jüdischen Kindern, die mit dem legendären Kindertransport nach England in Sicherheit gebracht wurden, kamen rund 2.300 aus Wien. In dieser Podcast-Staffel folgen wir zwei verängstigten Teenagern, deren Eltern sie zum Bahnhof brachten und dann selbst versuchten zu fliehen.
Sieben SchauspielerInnen in Wien und sieben in London lesen Briefe, Postkarten, Berichte und Interviews, die ei...2024-11-2513 min
Die Wochendämmerung - Der stabile WochenrückblickGrenzschließungen, Migration, Langstreckenraketen, Kamala Harris, Edmundo González Urrutia und ArschatmungDiesmal: Nachtrag zum legislativen / exekutiven Fußabdruck, ein langer Rant zum Sicherheitspaket und den Debatten rund um Migration und Grenzschließungen, Ukraine-News, Sham Jaff zu Global Witness, Venezuela-News, Stefan Nau, Kamala Harris und Ig Nobel.
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Centropa StoriesS11E3: Theodore Magder
Zhanna Litinskaya, from our Kyiv office, spent three weeks in Chisinau in 2004 interviewing elderly Holocaust survivors. Zhanna spent three afternoons with the head of the community, Theodor Magder, who spoke of surviving the war, working as a journalist during the Communist years, and how he joined the government once Moldova became independent.
Read by Steve Furst in London.2024-04-2311 min
Centropa StoriesS11E2: Polina LeibovichStill teaching school at the age of 79, Polina Leibovich shares with us her story of a happy childhood and how she managed to survive hell in the camps of Transnistria.
Interviewed for Centrpa by Natalia Fomina in 2004, Polina also tells us about finding a husband, raising a family and devoting her life to teaching.
Read by Sara Kestelman in London.2024-04-2313 min
Centropa StoriesS11E1: Moldova-IntroductionNarrated by Edward Serotta
Moldova became an independent country when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Well more than 65,000 Jews were registered then and over the next two decades, the overwhelming majority emigrated to Israel. The community stands at less than 5,000 today but provides its members with kindergartens, youth clubs, sports teams and care for seniors.
Centropa conducted two dozen interviews in Moldova and we have chosen two of those stories for this podcast season.2024-04-2204 min
Centropa StoriesS10E2: Vedem: the secret boys’ magazine of TerezinEpisode 2:
They were 13 and 14-year-old boys imprisoned in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto and only a handful would survive the Holocaust.
But these teenagers fought back with everything they had: determination, ethics, and moral courage. Every Friday night, they would take turns reading from their own secret magazine, Vedem (Czech for In The Lead) which was filled with poetry, essays, and humor.
Petr Ginz (1928-1944) was Vedem’s driving force and in this documentary, you’ll hear six actors tell the story of Vedem, and how Petr and his friends have left us with a le...2024-03-2019 min
Centropa StoriesS10E1: Vedem: the secret boys’ magazine of TerezinEpisode 1:
They were 13 and 14-year-old boys imprisoned in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto and only a handful would survive the Holocaust.
But these teenagers fought back with everything they had: determination, ethics, and moral courage. Every Friday night, they would take turns reading from their own secret magazine, Vedem (Czech for In The Lead) which was filled with poetry, essays, and humor.
Petr Ginz (1928-1944) was Vedem’s driving force and in this documentary, you’ll hear six actors tell the story of Vedem, and how Petr and his friends have left us with a le...2024-03-1930 min
Centropa StoriesS9E5: Ludmila RutarovaLudmila Weinerova grew up in Prague and was deported to Terezin with her parents and brothers when she was 22 years old. Ludmila paints a vivid picture of what life was like in the ghetto: grim and frightening on the one hand, but on the other, she performed in operas and in choirs that the prisoners performed. Lubmila Rutarova was interviewed by Daniela Greslova in Prague in 2007.
2024-01-1012 min
Centropa StoriesS9E4: Alena MunkovaBorn into a completely assimilated home in Prague, Alena Synkova didn’t understand what it meant to be Jewish until Germany’s invasion and occupation. Her mother died young, her father was sent off to his death, Alena was called up for a transport to Terezin and her brother fled to the resistance. Alena spent three years in Terezin and after the war became a well known poet, journalist and screenwriter.
Alena Munkova was interviewed by Zuzana Strouhova in Prague in 2005 and 2006
narrated by Shelley Blond2024-01-1012 min
Centropa StoriesS9E3: Antonie MilitkaAntonie grew up in Brno, where her family lived on the grounds of the Jewish community’s sports club. When the deportations began, her 12 year old brother went into hiding, her father was taken into forced labor, and Antonie, 16 years old, looked after her mother in Terezin. A story of incredible bravery, heartbreak and commitment.
Antonie Militka was interviewed by Barbara Pokreis in Brno in 2004
narrated by Jilly Bond
2024-01-0912 min
Centropa StoriesS9E2: Jan FischerJan Fischer, who became one of Prague’s most creative postwar theatre directors and memoirists, fell in love with the stage while a prisoner in Terezin. He and his fellow cellmates performed dramas, musicals and comedies, until one by one, they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. A compelling story of tragedy and resilience.
Jan Fischer was interviewed by Silvia Singerova in Prague in 2003
narrated by Peter Moreton2024-01-0915 minCentropa StoriesS9E1: Terezin - IntroductionEdward Serotta's introduction to the Centropa Podcast Season about Terezin.
2024-01-0203 min
Centropa StoriesS8E4: Simon Glasberg in Radauti and Botosaninarrated by Henry Goodman
Simon was less than three years old when the family was sent into the hell of Transnistria. They barely survived, and as he grew up in postwar Romania, Simon tells us of the unspeakable poverty and hunger he went through. Simon became an agricultural expert, married, had children. This lively, ironic storyteller is well worth listening to.2024-01-0113 min
Centropa StoriesS8E3: Rifca Segal in Sulita and Botosaninarrated by Jeni Barnett
Rifca grew up in a village that was nearly 75% Jewish, and she tells us life was good—until the war—when the family was forced to move to a bigger town. They were not deported further but lived in abject poverty and in constant anxiety. Rifca married, raised a family, and spent her last years teaching Hebrew to an ever-shrinking class of Jewish children.2024-01-0109 min
Centropa StoriesS8E2: Simon Meer in Dorohoinarrated by Steve Furst
Simon paints a vivid picture of growing up with his brothers in a Romanian shtetl. The entire family was deported to Transnistria during the war. Not all of them returned. Simon married, raised a family, and in time, became president of his Jewish community.2024-01-0111 min
Centropa StoriesS8E1: Welcome back to the shtetlnarrated by Edward Serotta
In towns like Dorohoi, Suceava, Botosani, and Radauti, Jewish life carried on all during the post-Holocaust decades. They were rapidly shrinking, of course, as most younger Jews wanted to leave, and the majority of them emigrated to Israel. But these small communities still maintained their canteens, youth clubs, choirs, and seniors’ clubs and held regular synagogue services. As of the 2020s, however, most of these organizations were no longer functioning. That makes these three stories all the more compelling, as they take you back to a world now lost to us.2024-01-0103 min
Commentaries from the EdgeCENTROPA: Jewish History Comes Alive with Lauren Granite, Ph.DBesides remembering what is long gone, decimated by the Holocaust of World War II, the CENTROPA organization is dedicated to recapturing the vibrant Jewish life of the early 20th century on the European continent. Their operation is based in headquarters in Vienna, Austria; Budapest, Hungary; and Hamburg, Germany. The organization’s full name is Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation.
The motto for CENTROPA is “Preserving Jewish Memory, Bringing History to Life”. It is a daunting task given the great diversity and variety of the Jewish way of life from 1900 to the 1930s, which was often integrated into every layer of Eu...2023-11-2535 min
Centropa StoriesS7E6: Leo Luster. Austria.When Nazi Germany occupied Austria, over 110,000 Jews managed to flee. The Luster family, Moses and Golda, and their 14 year old son Leo, could not find a way out. Leo would endure nearly seven years of hell—in Theresienstadt, in Auschwitz, and in work camps in Germany.
His story is read to us by Henry Goodman in London.
2023-11-1313 min
Centropa StoriesS7E5: Josef Seweryn. Poland.Jozef trained as a barber and as someone who could repair fountain pens. Those skills first saved his life and brought him into direct contact with Nazi officers in Auschwitz—and led him to testify against them in nearly a dozen postwar trials.
His story is read to us by Steve Furst in London.
2023-11-1307 min
Centropa StoriesS7E4: Pavel Werner. Czechia.In March 1939, Nazi Germany occupied the Czech regions of Bohemia and Moravia. Pavel’s family was called for a transport to Terezin in 1944. Two years later, they were told they would be sent to “the east.” That meant Auschwitz.
Pavel Werner story is read to us by Elliot Levey in London.
2023-11-1311 min
Centropa StoriesS7E3: Katerina Loefflerova. Slovakia.Katarina Vidor grew up comfortably middle class in Bratislava. She worked in an accounting office and spoke four languages. She loved playing tennis and water skiing with friends on the Adriatic. She had recently married and her parents lived nearby. Then the war came.
Her story is read for us by Jan Goodman in London.
2023-11-1310 min
Centropa StoriesS7E2: Erzebet Barsony. Hungary.She grew up in a well-to-do family in Budapest, married in 1928, and doted on her only child, Erwin while running three hat shops with her husband. Then the entire family descended into hell.
Her story is read to us by Tina Gray.
2023-11-1312 min
Centropa StoriesS7E1: Introduction: Five eyewitnesses in hell. The Auschwitz stories.Auschwitz-Birkenau. the ultimate symbol of the Holocaust, where more than a million Jews were murdered. Of the 1,230 elderly Jews we interviewed between 2000 and 2009, nearly 100 managed to survive this hell on Earth—some to be sent on to even worse places. We present excerpts from five of those interviews, one each from Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia and Poland.2023-11-1301 min
Centropa StoriesS6E4: Mirou-Mairy AngelMirou-Mairy Karasso was born in 1921, the oldest five children. She grew up wealthy and sheltered until she and her brother Albert, hiding with false papers, boarded a bus for Athens. The rest of the family fled to the mountains. A heartbreaking story of loss. Interviewed by Nina Hatzi in Athens in 2006
narrated by Jeni Barnet2023-10-0918 min
Centropa StoriesS6E3: Lily ArouchLily Pardo and her three sisters lived on Tsimiski Street and their father’s store was just down the block. And when the Germans began deporting tens of thousands of Jews, their fathers’ friend would hide them in his flat—for 18 months.
Interviewed by Annita Mordechai in Athens in 2006.
Narrated by Jilly Bond.2023-10-0915 min
Centropa StoriesS6E2: Alberto Berahanarrated by Allan Corduner
Alberto Beraha’s father was a currency trader, his mother taught French. The family escaped during the deportations, and Alberto tells of hiding in a mountain village, where he listened to BBC broadcasts on a hidden radio, and translated the news for the villagers protecting him and his father. Interviewed by Annita Mordechai in Athens in 2007.2023-10-0916 min
Centropa StoriesS6E1: Introduction: Escaping from/hiding in Thessalonikinarrated by Annita Mordechai
I grew up Jewish and Greek, the granddaughter of a woman who survived the Holocaust hiding with her parents and sisters in a friend’s apartment. In 2005, I joined a team of Centropa interviewers led by the historian Rena Molho and our goal was to ask elderly Jews born in Thessaloniki to share with us their personal stories—from the 1920s until the early 2000s. We highlight three of those interviews in this podcast season and you can find links to the interviews, as well as book recommendations, in the shownotes.
Than...2023-10-0901 min
Centropa StoriesS5E1: Anna Lanota - A Jewish Partisan in PolandA story of horror and resilience
Anna Rottenberg, born in 1915 in Lodz, grew up in a wealthy orthodox family. She broke away to study child psychology in Warsaw and when war came, she escaped, but went into the Warsaw Ghetto to try and save her family. Anna describes scenes of unimaginable horror, and how she married resistance fighter Eduard Lanota. Together they fought the Germans in the August, 1944 uprising. Eduard was killed. Eight months later, Anna delivered their baby. Anna went on to become one of Poland’s leading magazine editors and taught child psychology well int...2023-05-3122 min
Centropa StoriesS4E5: Götz and Meyer by David Albahari: ExcerptKirkus Review called Götz and Meyer “brilliantly disturbing” and The Guardian called it “unimprovable.” In this short (168 page) stream of consciousness work of fiction, a school teacher in Belgrade muses—and practically hallucinates—as he wonders just what the two SS men who drove the infamous gas van talked about all day. The fact that both Breda and Matilda Kalef watched their father and grandmother being loaded into this van makes it all the more harrowing. We have chosen an excerpt from Götz and Meyer, which is read by Allan Corduner, an actor with more than 140 screen credits, including Tar...2023-01-3111 min
Centropa StoriesS4E4: Breda KalefShe was born with the name Ruchel Kalef. During the war, Father Andrej Tumpej gave her a name to hide behind: Breda. After the war, Ruchel decided, “He gave me more than a name. He gave me a life.” Thanks to Breda, Father Tumpej is now listed as a Righteous Among the Nations. Breda became one of Yugoslavia’s best known mezzo-sopranos. Jane Bertish has appeared on stage in London performing George Bernard Shaw and Tennessee Williams. Her television credits include Rosemary’s Baby and most recently, Ted Lasso.
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Jane Bertish2023-01-3110 min
Centropa StoriesS4E3: Matilda KalefRachel Chanin interviewed Matilda Kalef-Cerge for us 2002, and we have remained in touch Matilda, who recalls both an idyllic childhood in a wealthy Sephardic family, and how she, her mother and sister managed to survive during the Holocaust. Read by Sara Kestelman, whose screen and stage credits include the works of Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Gorky and Marlowe, not to mention Star Wars. Excerpt from Leigh White’s The Long Balkan Night read by Nate Kelderman of Carnegie Mellon University2023-01-3112 min
Centropa StoriesS4E2: A walk through Jewish BelgradeFew Jews live in Dorcol today but this quiet corner of Belgrade still evokes its past, when Jewish shops stood cheek by jowl and families scurried off on Friday evenings to synagogue. Ida Labudovic interviewed Vera Amar and Avram Mosic for us in 2002, and both describe what Dorcol was like in its last years. Jilly Bond, who reads Vera Amar, is a regular performer on BBC’s The Archers and has read more than 40 audio books.David Horovitch. With 100 screen credits to his name, David Horovitch has performed Shakespeare on stage and in film, was recently seen in Mike Leigh’s Mr...2023-01-3116 min
Centropa StoriesS4E1: Welcome to BelgradeWe begin our walking tour and podcast in Belgrade’s Kalemegdan, the ancient fortress peering out over the confluence of the Sava and Danube Rivers. In her book, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, published in 1941, Dame Rebecca West provides us with a short history of Kalemegdan —from the Romans to the Ottomans to the Serbs—and actor Melanie Preston reads an excerpt for you. As we walk down into Dorcol, Stefan Sablic—cantor of the Belgrade synagogue, Ladino singer and musician—will accompany us.
narrated by
Edward Serotta2023-01-3109 min
Centropa StoriesS3E14: B2: At the grave of a friend “Every Ukrainian photographer dreams of taking the picture that will stop this war.”narrated by
Edward Serotta
That is what Maks Levin said when he went off to cover the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014. Once the Russians invaded in February, 2022, Maks had but 17 days to live. He was embedded with Ukrainian fighting units and covered the war on the front. On 11 March, his drone went down near the Hostomel airport. Maks went to retrieve it. The Russians were already there.2022-11-1104 min
Centropa StoriesS3E13: B1: Vasily Grossman’s essay, “Ukraine Without Jews“ From the English translation by Polly Zavadivkernarrated by
Jason Isaacs
In this episode, we take a drive out of Kyiv. Our destination is the village of Kozary, 82 kilometers to the north. This is where, in October 1943, the reporter Vasily Grossman wrote his searing essay, Ukraine Without Jews.2022-11-1113 min
Centropa StoriesS3E12: Lilya Finberg’s Centropa interview: The confident walk of my granddaughternarrated by
Jan Goodman
Lilya Finberg paints a picture of postwar Jewish life in Kyiv, from the days of the ‘anti- cosmopolitan campaign’ to the infamous doctor’s plot. But Lilya watched society change, especially after Ukraine’s independence in 1991, and was thrilled when her son Leonid became one of Ukraine’s leading Jewish intellectuals.2022-11-1108 min
Centropa StoriesS3E11: Evgenia’s Shapiro’s Centropa interview: He could never forgive them. Until he could.narrated by
Jane Bertish
Jakob Shapiro was a highly decorated Army officer who railed against Jews leaving their motherland for Israel. A construction engineer, he worked on building sites until he was 86. In his final years, Jakob Shapiro mused, “I’ll bet I would have done well there,” he said. “Guess I should have gone, too.”2022-11-1107 min
Centropa StoriesS3E10: Peter Rabtsevich’s Centropa interview: Starting life overnarrated by
Henry Goodman
Peter Rabtsevich describes what it was like for Jews in Kyiv, and in the Soviet Union, in the decades after the Second World War. Thousands would stand in front of Kyiv’s only synagogue on the High Holidays. “They came to remember their heritage, to remember their murdered families, and to remember that they were Jews.”2022-11-1106 min
Centropa StoriesS3E9: Hertz Rogovoy’s Centropa interview: The fights of his life“narrated by
Allan Corduner
Before he was 20 years old, Hertz Rogovoy had fought in three of the war’s major battles: the defense of Moscow, in Stalingrad, and at Orel, where a sniper shot him. Twice. After a year in the hospital, Hertz decided he, too, would become a doctor. And he practiced well into his 80s.2022-11-1115 min
Centropa StoriesS3E8: Dora Postrelko’s Centropa interview: Flight to the eastnarrated by
Sara Kestelman
A story with the wallop of a 19th century novel. When the Germans were closing in on Kyiv, Sasha Goldberg took his fiancé, Hana Gehtman, and her sister Dora, to a train headed east. As winter set in, Hana became sick and died. Sasha kept writing her from the front line, and Dora answered, pretending to be Hana.2022-11-1110 min
Centropa StoriesS3E7: Aron Rudiak’s Centropa interview: Escape from Odesanarrated by
David Horovitch
Aron’s father was sure the Germans and the Romanians would never take Odesa. And he went off to enlist to help make sure they wouldn’t. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Aron insisted to his mother they flee on one of the last ships out. The rest of the family remained.2022-11-1110 min
Centropa StoriesS3E6: “Maybe Esther“ by Katja Petrowskajanarrated by
Shelley Blond
Edward Serotta introduces our wartime stories while walking through Babyn Yar, where tens of thousands of Jews were murdered by German soldiers in September 1941. The actor Shelley Blond reads an excerpt from a remarkable memoir. When Petrowskaja asked her father what his grandmother’s name was, he shrugs and tells her he was but four years old. “Maybe Esther,” he says. And Maybe Esther walked to the edge of the ravine in Babyn Yar.2022-11-1106 min
Centropa StoriesS3E5: Sarah Kaplan’s Centropa interview: Married off to save her from starvationnarrated by
Janet Suzman
Perhaps as many as 4 million Ukrainians starved to death during Stalin’s enforced famine of 1832/1933. Sarah Kaplan tells us how, even though she was but 16 years old, her mother married her off to a cousin from Moscow, just to get her out of Ukraine.2022-11-1112 min
Centropa StoriesS3E4: Sophie Belotserkovskaya’s Centropa interview: How my parents metnarrated by
Jeni Barnett
One of our most colorful storytellers, Sophie tells us how one day, when her mother was walking on the street in Kamenets Podolskii, a handsome young man, an actor, asked for directions.2022-11-1106 min
Centropa StoriesS3E3: Grigori Sirotta’s Centropa interview: Shtetl life in the 1920snarrated by
Stephen Greif
In this short episode, we learn about growing up in a shtetl, fleeing a pogrom, and what it was like living on a collective farm.2022-11-1107 min
Centropa StoriesS3E2: Sholem Aleichem in Kyivnarrated by
Steve Furst
The actor Steve Furst reads an excerpt from Sholem Aleichem’s autobiography, From the Fair. This most famous of all Yiddish writers describes what it was like arriving in Kyiv in the late 1880s. As he says about the big city, “If you’re afraid of wolves, don’t go into the forest.”2022-11-1104 min
Centropa StoriesS3E1: Introduction: A Ukrainian Jewish Centurynarrated by
Edward Serotta
The actor Steve Furst reads an excerpt from Sholem Aleichem’s autobiography, From the Fair. This most famous of all Yiddish writers describes what it was like arriving in Kyiv in the late 1880s. As he says about the big city, “If you’re afraid of wolves, don’t go into the forest.2022-11-1102 min
SmoncaBácsi Róbert és Czingel SzilviaSzemközt – Holokauszt-történetek két távoli városból fényképeken címmel nyílt kiállítása Bácsi Róbert Lászlónak és Hermann Ildinek a Robert Capa Kortárs Fotográfiai Központ rendezésében, de helyileg a Holokauszt Emlékközpont épületének udvarán. Róbert képei a Centropa projektjének keretében készültek, aminek célkitűzése 20. századi zsidó élettörténetek gyűjtése, dokumentálása és közzététele. Az életinterjúkat Czingel Szilvia készítette, így a fotográfiák elkészítésében neki is nagy szerepe vol2022-07-251h 02
Centropa GeschichtenS2 E7: Kurt Rosenkranz: von Wien nach KasachstanKurt, aufgewachsen in Wien, war durch und durch besessen von Fussball. Als er und seine Familie 1938 nach Riga fliehen mussten, war er genau so besessen vom Kommunismus. Aber nur bis ein Soldat der Roten Armee an seine Tür klopfte und der Familie befahl, ihm zu folgen. Sie wurden mit dem Zug in ein Gefangenenlager eines Gulags geschickt. Kurt sagte daraufhin, “Kommunismus - du bist für mich gestorben!”
Erzählt von Miguel Herz-Kestranek.2022-03-0816 min
Centropa GeschichtenS2 E6: Kitty Drill: von Laa an der Thaya nach MauritiusKitty Drill stammte aus einer Familie von Viehhändlern und Obstverkäufern. Nachdem die Deutschen Österreich besetzt hatten, entschieden sich acht von Kittys Verwandten zur Flucht: Erst mit dem Schiff die Donau abwärts, dann mit einem weiteren Schiff Richtung Haifa. Dort angekommen wurde ihnen die Einreise verweigert. Sie wurden weitergeleitet und fanden sich in einem Gefängnis im Indischen Ozean wieder.
Erzählt von Tania Golden.2022-03-0812 min
Centropa GeschichtenS2 E5: Heinz Bischitz: von Oberwaltersdorf nach BudapestHeinz stammte aus der einzigen jüdischen Familie im gesamten Dorf. Alle kamen gut miteinander aus - bis das Dritte Reich Österreich okkupierte. Diese Geschichte erzählt von einer Flucht nach Ungarn - im Vertrauen, dort in Sicherheit zu sein.
Erzählt von Alexander Absenger.2022-03-0813 min
Centropa GeschichtenS2 E4: Lilli Tauber: von Wiener Neustadt nach Cockney CleyLilly lebte in einer Kleinstadt. Von einem Tag auf den anderen begannen ihre nichtjüdischen Freunde sie zu meiden. Dann kam der 9. November 1938. Lillis Eltern suchten nun verzweifelt nach Möglichkeiten, ihre Tochter zu retten.
Erzählt von Marika Lichter.2022-03-0815 min
Centropa StoriesS2 E7: Kurt Rosenkranz: Vienna to KazakhstanKurt was obsessed with football (soccer). When the family fled to Riga after 1938 and he became obsessed with Communism. Until a Red Army soldier knocked on their door, ordered the family to follow him, and sent them on a train to a gulag prison camp. “Communism,” Kurt said, “You’re dead to me.”
narrated by David Horovitch.2022-03-0816 min
Centropa GeschichtenS2 E3: Kitty Suschny: von Wien nach ManchesterKittys Vater starb an einem Herzinfarkt, lange bevor die Deutschen in Österreich einmarschierten. Nach dem sogenannten “Anschluss” floh ihr Bruder aus Österreich. Auch Kitty wurde von ihrer Mutter zum Bahnhof gebracht. “Mach dir keine Sorgen um mich”, sagte sie, “ich bin die Witwe eines Armeeoffiziers”.
Erzählt von Sandra Cervik.2022-03-0818 min
Centropa GeschichtenS2 E2: Sophie Engler: von Wien nach SchottlandSophie wuchs in einer wohlhabenden Familie auf, die bald alles verlieren sollte. Als Sophie neun Jahren alt war, wurde sie von ihrer Mutter zum Bahnhof gebracht. Sie konnte nur hoffen, ihre Mutter irgendwann wiederzusehen.
Erzählt von Sona MacDonald.2022-03-0815 min
Centropa StoriesS2 E6: Kitty Drill: From Laa an der Thaya to MauritiusKitty Drill came from a family of cattle dealers and fruit sellers. When the Germans occupied Austria, eight mem-bers of her family took a ship down the Danube, another to Haifa, and ended up in a British prison in the Indian Ocean.
Narrated by Julia Franklin. 2022-03-0812 min
Centropa StoriesS2 E5: Heinz Bischitz: From Oberwaltersdorf to BudapestHeinz came from the only Jewish family in their village and got along with everyone. Until Austria was subsumed into the Third Reich. A tale of fleeing to Hungary for safety. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Narrated by Allan Corduner.
2022-03-0813 min
Centropa GeschichtenS2 E1: Einleitung 9. November 1938Einleitung zur 2. Staffel von CENTROPA STORIES - Jüdische Familiengeschichten aus dem Centropa Archiv
Patrick Schmid
Tanja Eckstein interviewte zwischen 2002 und 2009 77 ältere Juden in Wien. Sie gehörten zu jenen, die das Glück hatten, nach der Besetzung des Landes durch die Deutschen im Jahr 1938 fliehen zu können. Unsere akademische Praktikantin Jackie Olson hat Monate damit verbracht, jedes dieser Interviews zu lesen und sechs für uns auszuwählen.
Um die schicksalhaften Geschichten unserer zweiten Podcast-Staffel zum Leben zu erwecken, haben wir uns an jeweils sechs Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler in London und Wien gewandt. Fabio Gschweidl, Centropas Programmierer und Designer, war für die Einrichtung des Webportals sowie für die digitale Distribution aller 12 Episoden verantwortlich, während Patrick Schmid, unser hauseigener Podcast-Produzent, die Audioaufnahmen in Wien anfertigte und das Musik- und Sounddesign erstellte. Unterstützt wurde Patrick von Ivo Spassov in Sofia. Di2022-03-0805 min
Centropa StoriesS2 E4: Lilli Tauber: From Wiener Neustadt to Cockney CleyLilli was living in a small town when suddenly, all her non-Jewish friends started avoiding her. Then came November 9th. Lilli’s parents desperately looked for a way to save their daughter.
Narrated by Sara Kestelman.2022-03-0814 min
Centropa StoriesS2 E3: Kitty Suschny: From Vienna to ManchesterKitty’s father died of a heart attack well before the Germans marched into Austria. After the Anschluss her brother fled and Kitty’s mother took her to the station. “Don’t worry about me,” she said. “I’m the widow of an army officer.”2022-03-0816 min
Centropa StoriesS2 E2: Sophie Engler: From Vienna to a village in ScotlandSophie was born into a wealthy family that would soon lose everything, including the lives of her family. Just nine-years-old when her mother brought her to the train station, Sophie could only hope she’d see her mother again.
Narrated by Jilly Bond.
2022-03-0814 min
Centropa StoriesS2 E1: Introduction November 9th, 1938Introduction to season two of CENTROPA STORIES
Edward Serotta
Between 2002 and 2009, Tanja Eckstein interviewed 77 elderly Jews here in Vienna. More than half of them had been born here, and were lucky enough to flee after the Germans occupied the country in 1938. Our academic intern Jackie Olson spent months reading through each one of them, then selected six interviews for us.
To bring these dramatic stories to life in our second podcast season, we turned to six actors in London and six here in Vienna. That means Fabio Gschweidl, our in-house programmer and designer...2022-03-0804 min
Centropa StoriesS1 E5: Bonus material - Interview with Wendy Goldmannarrated by:
Wendy Goldman
Historian Wendy Goldman of Carnegie Mellon on the Soviet Union and the home front during the war.
Read Feiga Kil’s Centropa biography and see her pictures here.2021-12-2122 minCentropa StoriesS1 E4: Feiga Kil’, Riga, Latvianarrated by:
Sara Kestelman
Isaac Aizman was a neurosurgeon in Riga. His wife Tobe-Leya remained at home raising four children. When war came, Dr Aizman was conscriopted into the Soviet Army. He told his wife to flee eastward. She hesitated. And that would cost them all.
Read Feiga Kil’s Centropa biography and see her pictures here.2021-12-2113 minCentropa StoriesEp. 3: Moses Chubat, Chisinau, Moldovanarrated by:David HorovitchMoses Chubat was but ten years old when the Romanian and German armies invaded Moldova. Barely escaping Chisinau, which was being set ablaze, Moses, his parents and grandparents fled by train, ship and wagon—all the way to Uzbekistan, 4,000 miles from home.Read Moses Chubat’s Centropa biography and view his pictures here2021-12-2109 minCentropa StoriesS1 E2: Samuel Birger, Jonava, Lithuanianarrated by:
Allan Corduner
Samuel Birger tells the harrowing story of what it was like for his family to flee from their shtetl of Jonava as the Germans sped through the country, and more than a few Lithuanians joined in what would become an orgy of killing. The Birger family fled by horse and wagon, by foot, and then by train—until weeks later, they arrived in Tatarstan. Living in wretched poverty, Samuel’s grandmother starved to death while he and his three younger brothers foraged for jobs and food on collective farms.
You can rea...2021-12-2108 minCentropa StoriesS1 E1: Introduction: 22 June, 1941The German invasion of the Baltics and the Soviet Union2021-12-2105 min
SmoncaA női test alakváltozatai 1880-1945 - Czingel Szilvia kulturális antropológusMai vendégem Czingel Szilvia, kulturális antropológus, muzeológus, néprajzkutató. Évekig a Centropa munkatársaként készített életútinterjúkat. Első könyve a Szakácskönyv a túlélésért. Lichtenwörth, 1944-1945, a lágerekben főzésről és ételekről álmodozó női közösség erejéről szól, amit a Gólem színház színpadra is vitt.
A második könyve az Ünnepek és hétköznapok. Zsidó vallásnéprajz a Kárpát-medencében címe magáért beszél.
Legfrissebb kötete néhány hete jelent me...2020-09-2853 min
JM SundayEpisode 350: Featuring an interview with Edward Serotta, founder of Centropa.org, great Jewish music and Morning Chizuk with Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser2019-06-3000 min
Voices on AntisemitismEdward SerottaEdward Serotta founded Centropa in 2000 to preserve memories of Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Centropa has trained thousands of schoolteachers to bring this material into classrooms from Gastonia, North Carolina, to Vilnius, Lithuania. A strong believer in the power of personal narrative, Serotta hopes that Centropa stories will resonate with new generations, who may never have the opportunity to engage with a survivor in person.2016-05-0506 min
Voices on AntisemitismEdward SerottaEdward Serotta founded Centropa in 2000 to preserve memories of Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Centropa has trained thousands of schoolteachers to bring this material into classrooms from Gastonia, North Carolina, to Vilnius, Lithuania. A strong believer in the power of personal narrative, Serotta hopes that Centropa stories will resonate with new generations, who may never have the opportunity to engage with a survivor in person.2016-05-0506 min
Voices on AntisemitismEdward SerottaEdward Serotta founded Centropa in 2000 to preserve memories of Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Centropa has trained thousands of schoolteachers to bring this material into classrooms from Gastonia, North Carolina, to Vilnius, Lithuania. A strong believer in the power of personal narrative, Serotta hopes that Centropa stories will resonate with new generations, who may never have the opportunity to engage with a survivor in person.2016-05-0500 min