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Sammy Marques: "What Goes Around Comes Around" Part 4
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From: Charles McGuigan
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Sammy Marques: "What Goes Around Comes Around" Part 5
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From: Charles McGuigan
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Sammy Marques "What Goes Around Comes Around", part 3
(00:27:20)
From: Charles McGuigan
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(00:28:28)
From: Charles McGuigan
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Rolanda Scott, The Art of Transformation, pt. 2
(00:29:23)
From: Charles McGuigan
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From: Charles McGuigan
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Lester Blackiston, The Pirate of Shockoe Bottom, Part 6
(00:29:31)
From: Charles McGuigan
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Piece Description
Jay Ipson and his family survived a number of selections and deportations in the Kuvna ghetto. His father, a lawyer by profession, used ingenuity and imagination to outsmart the Nazis. The family finally escaped the ghetto and were taken in by a Polish family in rural Lithuania. His father dug an underground lair that measued nie by twelve by four feet high. Other members of the Ip family moved into the hiding place. In all there were 13 of them and they lived under the earth for six full months until the Liberation.
Transcript
ACT 1
0:25
(from Track 20, Jay Ipson Tracks 2; 0:25-0:50)
(of Hitler telling the German people about the final solution)
NARRATIVE 1
1:00
That was Adolph Hitler. He was talking about a final solution. He mentioned an international conspiracy of Jewish bankers. Crazy talk. Insane. Yet, the German people went along with him. They followed him, executed his orders, systematically rounding up millions of European Jews and exterminating them.
One of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust living in Virginia is Jay Ipson. He wears a large Stetson hat, cowboy boots, a suit coat and tie. His pace is brisk as we walk back to his office.
When the dark tide of Nazism began seeping across Europe, Jay was just a boy. He lived with his parents and infant sister in Kuvna, Lithuania. His father, an attorney, followed...
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