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- Added: May 02, 2012
- Length: 00:01:59
A review of the intriguing WWII documentary.
- Added: Apr 25, 2012
- Length: 00:01:59
With the election of another American to head the World Bank, some are questioning the institution's legitimacy and role in the world. Since once-i...
- Added: Apr 24, 2012
- Length: 00:01:57
An author interview with Arthur Magida on "The Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle"
- Added: Feb 01, 2012
- Length: 00:27:59
Jim Peacock is one of only a few dozen U.S. veterans who witnessed both the beginning of World War II at Pearl Harbor and the war's end on deck the...
Bought by Public Radio Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSJD, and WAMC
- Added: Dec 05, 2011
- Length: 00:09:02
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Oct 17, 2011
- Length: 00:05:15
With Veteran's Day coming up, we take a moment to remember the veterans from the Second World War, when a general takes his students to France to h...
- Added: Oct 07, 2011
- Length: 00:28:59
The nation is losing 850 World War II veterans a day. One Virginia general is seeing that their sacrifice is remembered. Kelley Libby reports.
- Added: Oct 07, 2011
- Length: 00:02:20
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Louise Lawrence-Israels discusses memories from her early childhood spent hiding in Amsterdam. In 1942, 6 month old Louise and her family went into...
- Added: Jul 27, 2011
- Length: 00:08:41
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
In this episode Helen Goldkind discusses her deportation and arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi killing center.
- Added: Jul 27, 2011
- Length: 00:08:35
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jacqueline Mendels Birn discusses her family’s flight in July 1942 from German-occupied Paris to the southern “free” French zone known as Vichy.
- Added: Jul 27, 2011
- Length: 00:09:24
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Helen Luksenburg discusses daily life, spiritual resistance and forced labor in Gleiwitz, a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- Added: Jul 27, 2011
- Length: 00:06:51
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Halina Peabody discusses her mother’s decision to go into hiding as a family following the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Halina spent the war ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2011
- Length: 00:12:02
He was shy, geeky ... a genius ... and helped turn the tide in World War II.
- Added: Apr 28, 2011
- Length: 00:03:00
A Japanese student got fellow students from England, France, the USA, Germany, China and Japan to tell each other what World War II meant to them, ...
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Dec 06, 2010
- Length: 00:10:01
- Purchases: 1
Step back in time with legendary reporter and "Murrow Boy" Richard C. Hottelet as he takes listeners from high above the beaches of Normandy down t...
- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 00:53:32
Mara Kumagai Fink explores her family's experiences in the internment camps during WWII. Mara spent the summer interviewing family members and revi...
Bought by WGXC, Vocalo.org, KUNM, and YouthCast
- Added: Sep 22, 2010
- Length: 00:06:43
- Purchases: 4
A new perspective on the often-overlooked story of the Marines who fought in the brutal Pacific Campaign of World War II.
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KUCB, WBEZ, WSKG, KMXT and more
- Added: Dec 17, 2009
- Length: 00:55:54
- Purchases: 17
In 1940, Tracy Strong left the relative safety of America to help students displaced by the war in Europe to continue their studies. While uncomfor...
- Added: Oct 02, 2009
- Length: 00:05:14
Actor Daniel Craig is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Agent 007 in the James Bond movies. But his latest film, Defiance, is based on the t...
- Added: Aug 17, 2009
- Length: 00:04:17
Antony Polonsky has learned that there are no simple answers to the large questions of history, no single view of the past. Any view of history mus...
- Added: Aug 17, 2009
- Length: 00:05:50
In examining how the New York Times could have missed—or dismissed—the significance of the annihilation of Europe's Jews, Laurel Leff found many un...
- Added: Aug 17, 2009
- Length: 00:07:02
Veterans' stories presented and reflected on by students.
- Added: Jun 03, 2009
- Length: 00:33:48
