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Playlist: Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Curated Playlist

Holocaust Remembrance Day is April 11.

Our Jewish History Picks playlist may also be of interest for Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Below are picks chosen by PRX editorial staff. You can find other options for Holocaust Remembrance by using our search.

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See also: Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor, a series of three 28-minute pieces, included in the Half-Hour section.

Surviving Torture: Inside Out

From Inside Out Documentaries | 01:01:58

This is the story of what torture can do to people's spirits, and how some can be helped to recover. It won the 2002 DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton. Although it was produced seven years ago, the audio is evergreen and the content quite relevant in 2009.

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Exodus '47: Inside Out

From Inside Out Documentaries | 00:59:25

This is the story of three men who served aboard the Exodus 1947, a Jewish refugee ship that tried to run thousands of holocaust survivors past the British blockade of Palestine in 1947. From WBUR's Inside Out Documentaries. Produced by Sean Cole.

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Never Again: A Holocaust Memorial - with Elie Wiesel and Abraham Foxman

From The Radio Foundation, Inc. | Part of the ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience series | 00:58:40

This one-hour special includes Larry Josephson's recent exclusive interview with Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on behalf of humanity. While the piece's description may be outdated, the audio is evergreen and relevant for Remembrance Day 2009.

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Holocaust Voices

From WHRV | 00:58:59

This program offers the personal accounts of five individuals who survived the Holocaust.

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The Remarkable Life of Shlomo Breznitz

From Prime Time Radio | Part of the Prime Time Radio series | 00:59:50

From Holocaust survivor to renowned psychologist, teacher, researcher, member of the Israeli Knesset, and now a leader in using technology to improve brain function, Dr. Shlomo Breznitz has so much to teach us.

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The Story of the Peat Bog Soldiers

From Arndt Peltner | 00:38:37

This feature about the Moorsoldaten or Peat Bog Soldiers is the story of a song written in the early days of the Third Reich in the concentration camp Boergermoor in northern Germany. Awarded with a Silver Reel at the NFCB conference in Albuquerque in 2004.

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Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor

From Charles McGuigan | Part of the A Grain of Sand series | 00:27:52

Jay Ipson is the original survivor. He and his mother and father escaped selections in the the Kuvna ghetto in Lithuania. When Nazis tightened the noose the family escaped the ghetto and made it into rural Lithuania. There his father dug a hiding place where the family survived until liberation. This is a 3 part series. Part 2 and Part 3 are also 28 minutes long.

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Letter of the Law (Voices on Genocide Prevention)

From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Part of the Voices on Genocide Prevention series | 00:25:57

Legal scholar William Schabas, director of the Irish Human Rights Centre and author of "Genocide in International Law: The Crime of Crimes," discusses the history of genocide in international law and its relationship to the overlapping concept of crime against humanity.

Part of the Voices on Genocide Prevention series from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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What's the Word? Literature by Child Survivors of the Holocaust

From Modern Language Association | 00:30:01

In memoirs and fiction, child survivors write about the events they lived through. This piece includes interviews with the authors and critics. From Sally Placksin and The Modern Language Institute.

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Remembrance Day

From Julie Subrin | 00:11:48

A visit to a Rwandan memorial raises questions about when and how we remember genocide. During Warner's visit to this shockingly stark memorial, he meets two survivors, Francois Ursunganu and Wilton Ndasinga, as well as James Smith, a British Holocaust educator working to construct a memorial to replace the schoolhouse. In conversations with these three men, Warner, whose Jewish grandfather lost most of his family in the Holocaust, considers the challenges survivors of genocide face in trying to honor the memory of those who died, without being consumed with grief and horror. From Julie Subrin and Gregory Warner.

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Inspired Minds with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

From Deutsche Welle | Part of the Inspired Minds series | 00:14:51

One-on-one with cellist and Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch.

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TV Guide

From Eric Molinsky | 00:11:30

A Hollywood mini-series changed the way Germans understand the Holocaust.

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Stories of Liberation

From WAER | 00:11:12

Two World War II veterans recall memories of serving on the front lines and helping to liberate two concentration camps.

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"Hiding in the Spotlight" - a true Holocaust story of survival.

From Katie Ball | 00:05:38

A young Jewish piano prodigy, whose music saved her life during the Holocaust.

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Steve Reich's Different Trains meets the Borromeo String Quartet -- on ThoughtCast!

From Jenny Attiyeh | 00:13:59

Tells the story of Steve Reich's early childhood -- his train trips between the East and West coasts to visit his separated parents -- and of the train trips Jews were forced to take during the Holocaust. 4:30 version also available.

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Voices on Antisemitism: Susan Warsinger (Holocaust Survivor)

From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Part of the Voices on Antisemitism series | 00:06:16

In November 1938, the Nazis destroyed Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues in an event known as Kristallnacht—the "Night of Broken Glass." Susan Warsinger was an eyewitness to that terrifying event.

Part of the Voices on Antisemitism series from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Hidden Children of the Holocaust

From WKSU | 00:06:13

Two holocaust survivors recount stories from their childhoods, when they hid their identities and hid physically to escape the Nazis.

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Flory Jagoda

From VFH Radio | Part of the Folklife FieldNotes series | 00:03:30

"Don't open your mouth. Just sit and play. Keep on playing."

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Voices on Antisemitism: Kathrin Meyer (former Advisor on Antisemitism Issues, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)

From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Part of the Voices on Antisemitism series | 00:05:16

As the OSCE's advisor on antisemitism, Kathrin Meyer worked to increase awareness by creating educational programs for students and by promoting Holocaust remembrance.

Part of the Voices on Antisemitism series from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Voices on Antisemitism: Deborah Lipstadt, Ph.D. (Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Emory University)

From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Part of the Voices on Antisemitism series | 00:04:56

When Holocaust denier David Irving sued Deborah Lipstadt for libel in a British court, she experienced what she called "the world of difference between reading about antisemitism and hearing it up close and personal."

Part of the Voices on Antisemitism series from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Bergen-Belsen

From Sound Portraits | 00:03:49

In 1945, the BBC broadcast one reporter's description and field recording of a Shabbat service conducted on the grounds of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the days following its liberation.

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StoryCorps: Debbie Fisher

From StoryCorps | Part of the StoryCorps Interview Excerpts series | 00:02:32

Debbie Fisher shares what it was like hearing about her father's experience at Auschwitz for the first time.

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