yesterday (saturday 4th), podcast (9 minutes), on bbc radio 4
more or less: behind the stats (presented by tom coles)
“Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines.”
including contributions from …
• analyst andrew mercer
• pollster douglas rivers, yougov
(more…)last friday morning (19th april), 5 minutes, on bbc radio oxford
holocaust survivor’s family visit oxford exhibition (presented by katie martin)
“Three generations of the family of Holocaust survivor Naomi Warren are flying in from the USA to visit the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.
They are commemorating how Naomi, a young Jewish woman originally from Poland, was helped by Oxfordshire Yeomanry soldier Arthur Tyler at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.”
including interview with …
• great-granddaughter aerin kalmans
(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nyk5y7kl9o)
(more…)this evening (saturday 27th), 10.00pm-1.00am, on drama tv (repeated from august and june 2022 and november 2020 on london live tv) (originally produced for and broadcast by itv in april 1987)
escape from sobibor (1987) (starring rutger hauer, alan arkin, jack shepherd, hartmut becker, and joanna pacula)
“The story of the 1943 escape of more than 300 Jewish prisoners from the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor, the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps.”
(not available online)
this afternoon (wednesday 24th), 2.24-2.29pm and 9.45-9.49pm, on bbc world service radio
newshour (presented by james menendez) includes …
“A lost Klimt painting, Portrait of Fraulein Lieser, goes on auction in Vienna.
It was commissioned by a family of Jewish industrialists in 1917, a year before Klimt’s death.”
including interviews with …
• art historian claudia morth-gasser
• art historian alfred weidinger
(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68886196)
(more…)this afternoon (sunday 21st), 5.00-5.10pm, on bbc radio 4 (repeated from 2010, and from february 2024 on bbc world service radio)
the lost czech scrolls (presented by alex strangwayes-booth) (in the witness history series)
“On 7 February 1964, an unusual delivery was made to Westminster Synagogue in London.
More than 1,500 Torah scrolls, lost since the end of World War Two, were arriving from Czechoslovakia.
The sacred Jewish texts had belonged to communities destroyed by the Nazis.”
including interview with …
• philippa bernard, then 31, memorial scrolls trust
(more…)this afternoon (friday 19th), 4.23-4.29pm (repeated 8.32pm sunday), on bbc radio 4
amnon weinstein, b. 21.7.1939, d. 4.3.2024 (part of last word, obituary programme) (presented by matthew bannister)
“Amnon Weinstein, the luthier who collected and restored violins which had been played in concentration camps during the second world war.”
including interviews with …
• son avshalom weinstein
• composer jaap nico hamburger
(more…)this afternoon (tuesday 16th), 3.35-4.50pm, on pbs america tv (repeated 8.35pm, and 1.30pm and 8.20pm sunday, and repeated from 5th jan 2022, 9th may and 27th january 2021, and 27th january 2020, on bbc 4 and bbc 2 tv)
the windermere children: in their own words (narrated by iain glen)
including windermere children … • ike alterman, • sam laskier, • arek hersh, • ben helfgott, • harry spiro, • jan goldberger, harry olmer, • bela rosenthal (joanna millan) (then 3), and • zdenka husserl (then 3)
and … • historian trevor avery, • historian tony kushner, • raf flight sergeant norman shepherd, • lydia tischler, and sons • ashley faull and steven faull
(more…)this afternoon (friday 12th), 4.18-4.24pm (repeated 8.47pm friday), on bbc radio 4
hella pick, b. 24.4.1927, d. 4.4.2024 (part of last word, obituary programme) (presented by matthew bannister)
“Hella Pick, the long serving Guardian foreign correspondent who enjoyed the company of many world leaders.”
including interview with …
• friend linda christmas
(more…)this morning (sunday 7th), 9.42-9.45am, on bbc radio 4
that’s life! (in the the reunion series) (presented by kirsty wark) includes …
“In 1988, That’s Life! featured a number of people who were rescued as children from Czechoslovakia and brought to England at the start of World War II.
Nicholas Winton, the man who organized their transit, was invited to the studio, and viewers saw the moving moment when Esther Rantzen invited ‘anyone in the audience who owed their life to the actions of Mr. Winton’ to please stand up!”
including contributions from …
• former presenter peter bazalgette
• former presenter adrian mills
(more…)yesterday evening (monday 1st), 10.00-11.40pm, on bbc 2 tv (repeated from october 2023, november 2022 on bbc 4, june 2019 on bbc 1, and may 2017)
woman in gold (2015), with helen mirren, henry goodman, charles dance, jonathan pryce, and elizabeth mcgovern
“Austrian-Jewish refugee living in Los Angeles launches a legal campaign to reclaim a Gustav Klimt painting stolen from her family by the Nazis. Drama based on a true story.”
(if you missed it, available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06v0dsp)
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