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Piece Description
This 94-year-old from Albany, New York spoke with WSHU's Naomi Starobin about her experience as a young woman during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and her survival of the uprising and the Holocaust. In the piece, she sings the Warsaw Ghetto "Hymn of the Uprising." She talks about why she has finally decided to tell her story. Notes 1. Until now, the woman has refused to speak with the media. 2. She asked that her name and photo not be published on the web, but her name is in the audio. 3. The host intro is included, and includes a short cut from the woman.
Broadcast History
Aired on WSHU Public Radio, May 2008.
Transcript
Intro:
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the end of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. In 1940, Nazis crowded more than 400,000 into a three and a half square mile area in Warsaw, Poland. Gradually the Nazis restricted movement of the Jews in and out of the ghetto and cut off food and water. Tens of thousands of residents died of disease and starvation, or were sent to concentration camps. IN 1942, after hearing that the 300,000 ghetto residents the Nazis took away were deported the Treblinka concentration camp, there was a call for resistance. What followed, the Warsaw ghetto uprising, became the most famous attempt by Jews to resist the Germans during the Holocaust.
Lewanda: There wasn?t a chance in hell we?d win. But we decided if we have to die take some Nazis with you.
Among the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto was Ruth Lewanda, then in her 20s [and married]. She?s...
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Timing and Cues
Host intro included in audio. Note reference to May 16th anniversary. Note cut from woman profiled within the host intro.
taylor levine
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 05:15 PM | Permalink
Unbelievable!
So inspirational!