Outlook: Henry Wuga

this afternoon (tuesday 28th), 12.06-12.48pm (repeated 6.06pm and 3.06am), on bbc world service radio

the holocaust survivor who became my ‘adopted grandfather’ (in the outlook series) (presented by emily webb) 

“Food, and a search for belonging, is at the heart of an extraordinary friendship between Henry Wuga and Chitra Ramaswamy.

Chitra is a journalist. Around ten years ago she was sent by her editor to meet Henry and his wife Ingrid.

She was there to interview them about surviving the Holocaust for Refugee Week.

But this was no ordinary interview – though they are decades apart, different genders and ethnicities, they all fell in platonic love.”

including interview by chitra ramaswamy with …

• henry wuga b.1924, nuremberg

HMD 2022: Eva Schloss

today and tomorrow (wednesday 26th and thursday 27th), 12.06-12.50pm (repeated 6.06pm and 3.06am), on bbc world service radio 

anne frank’s stepsister: how i survived auschwitz (presented by emily webb) (2 episodes)

“Eva Schloss shares her extraordinary Holocaust testimony over two episodes:

1. Her life in Amsterdam, and how her family were captured. 

2. Her experience of the liberation of Auschwitz, and her efforts to keep her brother Heinz’s memory alive.

HARDtalk: Sylvia Foti

this morning (friday 3rd), 8.06-8.30am (repeated 3.06pm and 10.06pm), on bbc world service radio (repeated from april 2021 on bbc raido 4 and on bbc news tv)

silvia foti: when truth trumps family loyalty (presented by stephen sackur) (in the hardtalk series)

“Stephen Sackur interviews Silvia Foti, an American writer whose grandfather was a Lithuanian man hailed as heroic patriot who paid with his life resisting the Soviets.

But according to his granddaughter, Jonas Noreika was no hero – he had the blood of thousands of Jews on his hands. She’s chosen to speak out, angering many in Lithuania.

What happens when truth trumps family loyalty?”

Outlook: Palestinian engineer

this afternoon (wednesday 1st), 12.06-12.25pm (repeated 6.06pm and 3.06am), on bbc world service radio

outlook (presented by emily webb) includes …

“Engineer Loay Elbasyouni was part of the team that created an innovative type of helicopter that flew over the surface of Mars in April 2021.

The helicopter, named Ingenuity, performed the first ever controlled flight by an aircraft on another planet. But Loay grew up a long way from NASA and the US. He is from the Gaza Strip, part of the Palestinian Territories, and lived through the first Intifada as a child. He tells Emily Webb about the many obstacles he had to overcome to be part of that historic moment in space exploration.”

including interview with …

• engineer loay elbasyouni

Outlook: Dita Kraus

this afternoon (wednesday 26th), 12.06-12.50pm (repeated 6.06pm and 3.06am, and repeated from january 2020), on bbc world service radio

outlook (presented by emily webb) almost entirely deals with …

“Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus is now 90 years old, but she was only 14 when she was taken to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland. She worked in the children’s hut, and has written a book about her experience called A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz.

Outlook: Innsbruck photos

yesterday afternoon (tuesday 11th), 12.06-12.50pm (repeated 6.06pm and 3.06am), on bbc world service radio 

secrets of my family’s lost cafe (presented by emily webb) (in the outlook series)

“Meriel Schindler’s family were Jewish and had fled Austria in the late 1930s, as Hitler’s Nazi Party took over, and violent persecution of Jews turned into the Holocaust.

When her father died in 2017, Meriel inherited 13 photo albums. One was dedicated to the Café Schindler in Innsbruck, Austria, a venue set up by her Jewish grandfather in the 1920s.

As Meriel started to research the café, she discovered it had gone from being a hub of jazz music and delicious pastries, to a Nazi watering hole.

But the research would also uncover some uncomfortable truths about her father that she struggled to make sense of.”

including interview with … 

• meriel schindler, author of the lost cafe schindler

Outlook: Sylvia Cohn

this afternoon (tuesday 16th), 12.06-12.29pm (repeated 6.06pm and 3.06am), on bbc world service radio 

the birthday gift that survived the holocaust (in the outlook series) (presented by emily webb) 

“For her 11th birthday in March 1942, a little girl called Eva Cohn asked her mother Sylvia Cohn to send her some of her own poems.

At the time, Eva and her sister Myriam were in a Jewish children’s home in France, and Sylvia was imprisoned in an internment camp. Separated from her children by the Holocaust, and not knowing when or if she would see them again, Sylvia wrote this inscription in a small shabby exercise book: ‘to my children… know that your mother loves you.’ The book contained her own poems, written from memory, some of them detailing the family’s experiences in the Holocaust.

At the end of the war, Eva finally made it to England to be reunited with her father, her only possessions the clothes on her back, and the book of poems Sylvia had given her. Now nearly ninety, she’s had them translated at last. The story of one family in the Holocaust.”

including interview with …

• eva mendelsson (cohn), born 1931, germany 

Outlook: Orthodox rapper

this afternoon (wednesday 3rd), 12.06-12.29pm (repeated 6.06pm and 3.06am, and repeated from january 2018), on bbc world service radio 

an orthodox rapper in jerusalem (in the outlook series) (presented by emily webb) includes …

“Nissim Black grew up in the American city of Seattle, where he made his name rapping about drug dealing and drive-by shootings. These were all subjects that were familiar to him, and his music was doing well, but nevertheless Nissim became increasingly unhappy with the gangster image he portrayed.

He started as a Christian looking for answers in the Bible, but a growing interest in the Old Testament led on to a conversion to Orthodox Judaism, and ultimately a move to Jerusalem. Nissim still raps, but now he does it in a Shtreimel hat.”

including interview with …

• rapper nissim black 

Rescue at Entebbe

this afternoon (tuesday 2nd), 12.06-12.29pm (repeated 6.06pm and 4.06am), on bbc world service radio 

outlook (presented by emily webb) leads with …

“In June 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by militants. The plane and its 248 passengers were flown to Entebbe airport in Uganda, where all the Israeli and Jewish passengers on board were held hostage in an old terminal building. The hostage takers were members, or allies, of a Palestinian armed group, and the hijacking was tied to the on going Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Back in Israel, Rami Sherman, who was an officer in an elite military unit, started making plans to get the hostages back. The situation was challenging, and they knew they needed the element of surprise to pull off a rescue. The idea they came up with involved a low altitude flight across East Africa, and a fake presidential motorcade.”

including interview with …

• rami sherman, operations officer of the sayeret matkal commando unit

Outlook: Dita Kraus

this evening (thursday 23rd), 6.06-6.50pm (repeated from 1.06pm), on bbc world service radio

outlook (presented by emily webb) almost entirely deals with …

“Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus is now 90 years old, but she was only 14 when she was taken to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland. She worked in the children’s hut, and has written a book about her experience called A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz.