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EuropastEp. 12: War Unending: A Journey Through Love, Guilt, and the Ghosts of HistoryGuest: Rita GabisHost: Violeta DavoliūtėIn this episode of the EUROPAST podcast, Violeta Davoliūtė holds a conversation with author and poet Rita Gabis to mark the tenth anniversary of the publication of her critically acclaimed memoir: A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet: My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth. Gabis was the first of several third-generation authors to explore the traumas of the Holocaust and the Second World War in the Baltic States through the lens of her family’s experience, including Julija Šukys, Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Grand...2025-08-0433 min
The Audio Long ReadAre we witnessing the death of international law?A growing number of scholars and lawyers are losing faith in the current system. Others say the law is not to blame, but the states that are supposed to uphold it By Linda Kinstler. Read by Rachel Handshaw. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod2025-08-0134 min
Earlylands in ConversationEarlylands in Conversation - Episode 6 - Award-Winning Author Linda KinstlerLinda Kinstler is the author of the book Come to this Court and Cry, which was named a Wall Street Journal 2022 Book of the Year and won the 2023 Whiting Award for Nonfiction. In the words of The Guardian, the book is a “tremendous feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists and revelations, yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness.” The book traces the post-World War Two journey of Herbert Cukurs - celebrated Latvian aviator turned mass murderer known as the “Butcher of Riga" - who was abducted and assassinated by the Mossad in 1965. Simultaneously, Linda weaves in her own fraught f...2025-07-0133 min
Politics in the Rearview MirrorYour Questions: US Bombs on Iran and the Gender Gap in Party SupportIn this episode, Prof. John Williams, Dr. Dennis Schmidt, and Dr. Tessa Ditonto answer your questions on the legality of the US bombardment of Iranian nuclear sites and the reasons for the gender gap we observe in party support in the US and Western Europe.To learn more about our guests' research, visit their websites:John Williams: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/j-c-williams/Dennis Schmidt: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/dennis-schmidt/Tessa Ditonto: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/tessa-m-ditonto/Related...2025-06-2820 minThe Audio Long ReadInside the Vatican’s secret saint-making processCanonisation has long been a way for the Catholic church to shape its image. The Vatican is preparing to anoint its first millennial saint, but how does it decide who is worthy? By Linda Kinstler. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod2025-01-1734 min
History As It HappensOblivion in the Age of TrumpDoes the historical concept of oblivion offer a way out of our ruptured political life? "For centuries, legislative acts of oblivion were declared in times when betrayal, war, and tyranny had usurped and undermined the very foundations of law; when a household or nation had been torn apart, its citizens pitted against one another; when identifying, investigating, trying, and sentencing every single guilty party threatened to redouble the harm, to further fracture already divided societies," writes the scholar Linda Kinstler. In this episode, Kinstler delves into the history of oblivion as well as its limitations, as Donald Trump prepares...2024-11-1938 minHistory As It HappensOblivion in the Age of TrumpDoes the historical concept of oblivion offer a way out of our ruptured political life? "For centuries, legislative acts of oblivion were declared in times when betrayal, war, and tyranny had usurped and undermined the very foundations of law; when a household or nation had been torn apart, its citizens pitted against one another; when identifying, investigating, trying, and sentencing every single guilty party threatened to redouble the harm, to further fracture already divided societies," writes the scholar Linda Kinstler. In this episode, Kinstler delves into the history of oblivion as well as its limitations, as Donald Trump prepares...2024-11-1938 min
Farrel Buchinsky's Listen LaterThe Crimes of History, with Linda Kinstler and Peter Pomerantsev Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: The Crimes of History, with Linda Kinstler and Peter PomerantsevPub date: 2022-05-30Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:She wrote an article in The economist about RCT for poverty reduction in kenyaGet Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow do you put a ghost on trial? In Linda Kinstler's deeply personal new book, Come to This Court and Cry, she uncovers the atrocities of her Latvian grandfather's involvement in the Hol...2024-03-0243 min
The TLS PodcastCometh the HourThis week, Fintan O'Toole assesses what makes Labour leader Keir Starmer tick; and Linda Kinstler on the Ukrainian writer, musician and activist Serhiy Zhadan's chronicles of life during wartime. Plus John Kinsella reads his new poem, 'Rooks'.'Keir Starmer: The Biography', by Tom Baldwin'Rooks', by John Kinsella'How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems', by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps'Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front', by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse WheelerProduced by Charlotte...2024-02-2255 min
Understanding Israel PalestineHijacking Memory: The Holocaust and the Siege of GazaSend us a textThree experts on the Holocaust discuss the uses and abuses of Holocaust memory in the context of current events in Israel/Palestine and the war in Gaza. They note that since Oct. 7 the Holocaust has been invoked by Israeli leaders with accompanying calls for mass violence against Palestinians and a war in Gaza that has now killed close to 20,000 people. The conversation was convened in November by Jewish Currents magazine and the Diaspora Alliance. The historians are Omer Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University and the author of Genocide, t...2023-12-1628 min
New Books with Miranda MelcherLinda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:“After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind itself . . . comes to this Court and cries: ‘These are our laws—let them prevail!’”Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of...2023-10-2643 min
New Books in Genocide StudiesLinda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:“After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind itself . . . comes to this Court and cries: ‘These are our laws—let them prevail!’”Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of...2023-10-2643 min
New Books in German StudiesLinda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:“After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind itself . . . comes to this Court and cries: ‘These are our laws—let them prevail!’”Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of...2023-10-2643 min
New Books in Israel StudiesLinda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:“After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind itself . . . comes to this Court and cries: ‘These are our laws—let them prevail!’”Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of...2023-10-2643 min
New Books in Military HistoryLinda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:“After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind itself . . . comes to this Court and cries: ‘These are our laws—let them prevail!’”Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of...2023-10-2643 min
New Books in Eastern European StudiesLinda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:“After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind itself . . . comes to this Court and cries: ‘These are our laws—let them prevail!’”Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of...2023-10-2643 min
NBN Book of the DayLinda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:“After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind itself . . . comes to this Court and cries: ‘These are our laws—let them prevail!’”Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of...2023-10-2643 min
New Books in Jewish StudiesLinda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:“After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind itself . . . comes to this Court and cries: ‘These are our laws—let them prevail!’”Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of...2023-10-2643 min
Berkeley Voices112: How the Holocaust endsGrowing up, Linda Kinstler knew that her Latvian grandfather had mysteriously disappeared after World War II. But she didn't think much about it."That was a very common fate from this part of the world," says Kinstler, a Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric at UC Berkeley. "It didn't strike me as totally unusual. It was only later when I began looking into it more that I realized there was probably more to the story."What she discovered was too big for her to walk away.In 2022, she published her first book, Come to...2023-05-1828 min
The LedeSilence and Memory in Eastern Europe — with Linda Kinstler and Amie Ferris-RotmanLinda Kinstler, an academic and journalist, only discovered the truth about her grandfather a few years ago.
“Both of my parents were born in Riga, Latvia, during the Soviet Union,” she tells New Lines’ Amie Ferris-Rotman. “But they came from very different backgrounds.”
Her mother came from an old Jewish family in Ukraine. During World War II, many of her family members were gunned down at Babyn Yar, alongside hundreds of thousands of others, by Waffen SS and Wehrmacht forces. It was one of the largest single mass killings of the Holocaust. He...2023-03-3035 min
OVT Fragmenten podcastHistorische boeken met Bart FunnekotterElke maand bespreken we de nieuwste historische boeken met afwisselend Wim Berkelaar, Nadia Bouras en Bart Funnekotter.
Deze week is Bart Funnekotter aan de beurt. Hij las voor ons:
-Rebelse genieën van Andrea Wulf
-De Koopman van Kanton van Roelof van Gelder
-Zij die nooit zullen vergeten van Linda Kinstler
-Oorlog en ongelijkheid van Marjolein 't Hart
Eén van deze boeken wordt verkozen tot Boek van de Maand - en dat kunt u winnen! Houd tijdens de uitzending onze Facebookpagina in de gaten.2022-10-3013 min
The Atlantic Out LoudThe Angels of Lviv - Linda Kinstler - October 2022Scenes from the effort to save Ukrainian art from destruction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-09-2002 minThe Atlantic Out LoudThe Angels of Lviv - Linda Kinstler - October 2022Scenes from the effort to save Ukrainian art from destruction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-09-2002 minThe Atlantic Out LoudThe Angels of Lviv - Linda Kinstler - October 2022Scenes from the effort to save Ukrainian art from destruction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-09-2002 min
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Title: Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
Author: Linda Kinstler
Narrator: Laurence Bouvard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Release date: August 23, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
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Genres: World
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A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won fact...2022-08-239h 35Indulge In: This Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook For Curious Minds.Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends by Linda KinstlerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576000to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
Author: Linda Kinstler
Narrator: Laurence Bouvard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Release date: August 23, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Military
Publisher's Summary:
A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won fact...2022-08-239h 35
Get Top Full Audiobooks in History, WorldCome to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends by Linda KinstlerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends Author: Linda Kinstler Narrator: Laurence Bouvard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard...2022-08-2303 minGet Top Full Audiobooks in History, WorldCome to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends by Linda KinstlerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576000to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
Author: Linda Kinstler
Narrator: Laurence Bouvard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Release date: August 23, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won fact...2022-08-239h 35
Get Best Full Audiobooks in History, MilitaryCome to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends by Linda KinstlerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends Author: Linda Kinstler Narrator: Laurence Bouvard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard...2022-08-2303 minGet Best Full Audiobooks in History, MilitaryCome to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends by Linda KinstlerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576000to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
Author: Linda Kinstler
Narrator: Laurence Bouvard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Release date: August 23, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Military
Publisher's Summary:
A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won fact...2022-08-239h 35
Departures with Robert AmsterdamHistorical memory on trial “Imagine that all of humanity stands before you and comes to this court and cries. These are our laws, let them prevail.” -Sir Hartley Shawcross, War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 27, 1946 After discovering a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather and was the subject of a posthumous criminal investigation and concurrently a rehabilitation petition in Latvia, author Linda Kinstler began to deconstruct what these laws really mean when people are removed by time and memory from historical truths. A phenom...2022-08-0829 min
Start the WeekJustice, war crimes and targeted killingsLinda Kinstler’s Latvian grandfather disappeared after WWII and the family never spoke about him. But as she delved into Boris Kinstler’s life she found he had been a member of a killing brigade in the SS linked to the ‘Butcher of Riga’ Herbert Cukurs, before becoming a KGB agent and then vanishing. She attempts to uncover the truth in Come To This Court and Cry: How The Holocaust Ends, but also interrogates the uncertainties of memory, family, nation and justice.Although Herbert Cukur’s name came up frequently at the Nuremberg war crime trials for the killin...2022-06-2042 min
Intelligence SquaredThe Crimes of History, with Linda Kinstler and Peter PomerantsevHow do you put a ghost on trial? In Linda Kinstler's deeply personal new book, Come to This Court and Cry, she uncovers the atrocities of her Latvian grandfather's involvement in the Holocaust. In conversation with author, broadcaster and academic, Peter Pomerantsev, she asks how do we account for the brutality of historical events and our personal links to them, as the passage of time means they slip further beyond living memory? Linda and Peter also discuss whether the history of conflict is repeating itself through Russia's current War on Ukraine. Learn more about your...2022-05-3043 min
The Eastern Front#Nuremberg2022: What a War Crimes Trial Would Look like Today (with Linda Kinstler)What would a war crimes trial of Russian officials look like in 2022? Linda Kinstler, contributing writer for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine, joins the podcast for a rich discussion.Linda compares the many similarities and patterns between today's war crimes in Ukraine and the beginning steps of evidence collection with war crimes and war crimes trails following World War II and the Holocaust. She synthesizes the Russian experience of WWII with propaganda and its use of the word "Nazi" in justifying its invasion of Ukraine.Linda also answers our hosts' questions how war crimes are tried, wh...2022-05-0537 min
On the NoseVolodymyr Zelensky and Post-Soviet JewishnessIn the month since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has become a global icon. Zelensky, who was elected in 2019 and chose to remain in his country during the assault, is Ukraine’s first Jewish president. His Jewishness, already notable given the nation’s history of antisemitism, has taken on new symbolic importance in light of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that the assault is justified by its goal of “denazification.” Many Jews around the world, some of whose ancestors once lived in Ukraine, have come to identify with Zelensky, who embodies many of the contradictio...2022-04-0156 min
The Peripherysiliconizing spirituality II: artificial intelligence, spirituality, data, and surveillanceToday, we continue our conversation with Shanen Boettcher, a PhD candidate at the University of St. Andrews studying the ethics of artificial intelligence. We came across Shanen and his work when we read a New York Times opinion piece provocatively titled "Can Silicon Valley Find God?" by Linda Kinstler. Here, we discuss spirituality, religion, and how AI is shaping our understanding of our own values. We also talk about surveillance and data.Check out our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/theperipherypod) where we will be releasing an "on the periphery" episode on the metaverse Friday afternoon.2021-11-1134 min
The Peripherysiliconizing spirituality I: artificial intelligence and religionThis week, we talk to Shanen Boettcher, a PhD candidate at the University of St. Andrews studying the ethics of artificial intelligence. We came across Shanen and his work when we read a New York Times opinion piece provocatively titled "Can Silicon Valley Find God?" by Linda Kinstler. Here, we discuss spirituality, religion, and how AI is shaping our understanding of our own values.Tune in on Thursday for part II and subscribe to our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/theperipherypod) for a bonus episode about the "metaverse" coming Friday!Leave us an...2021-11-0933 min
The Forum at Grace CathedralGrace Forum Online with Linda KinstlerArtificial intelligence is embedded in our everyday lives: It influences which streets we walk down, which clothes we buy, which articles we read, whom we date and where and how we choose to live. It is ubiquitous, yet it remains obscure. Amid increasing scrutiny of technology’s role in everything from policing to politics, “ethics” has become an industry safe word, but no one seems to agree on what these ethics are. How are the teams working on A.I. determining what kinds of ethics and principles to pursue? What sets humans apart from machines? Is the development of A.I. chan...2021-10-141h 01