She escaped the Warsaw Ghetto, and with a false ID, took to the forests and city streets to kill Germans. Read by Sara Kestelman in London, who has played in the Royal Shakespeare Company and in Star Wars.
Anna Lanota - A Jewish Partisan in Poland
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 into her 80s.
narrated by
Sara Kestelman
Written and directed by Edward Serotta. Based on the Centropa interview conducted with Ms. Lanota by Aleksandra Bankowska in Warsaw, 2004.
The interview was underwritten by the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, San Francisco.
This podcast was produced by Oleh Teteriatnyk in London, with sound design and music provided by Epiphany Sound in Kyiv.
Special thanks to Ms. Lanota’s grandson Piotr Topinski and his wife, Ursula Slawiec.
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Educational and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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