Podcast

Season 8 Shtetl Stories from Romania.

In 2005, our interviewer Emoke Salzman traveled to what were then the last of Romania’s shtetls to interview 20 elderly Jews. In this season of Centropa Stories, we highlight three of their stories, and they are truly among the last genuine Yiddish storytellers (but are read for you in English).

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Season 7 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.

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Season 3 A Ukrainian Jewish Century

13 episodes that will take you on a journey through the 20th century.

With stories read by some of Britain’s finest character actors, you will hear excerpts from Sholem Aleichem, as well as personal stories of those who grew up in shtetls, fled from the Germans in 1941, and even fought them at Stalingrad. Then you’ll listen to stories of what it was like to start life over in the postwar decades.

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Season 2 9th November, 1938

In Season Two of CENTROPA STORIES, you will meet three of our interviewees whose parents took them to Vienna’s train stations and put them on Kindertransports to England, then went home to wait for the knock on the door they knew would come. Listen to Season 2