Intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history brought to you from rare archival interviews.
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Kenneth Roman was 15 when the Nazis rolled into his Polish hometown. After they liquidated the Jewish ghetto to which... more
German Jewish survivor Margot Heuman attributed her survival of the Nazi concentration camps to her friendship with another teenage girl.... more
Lucy Salani was assigned male at birth, so when she came of age she was conscripted into the Italian army.... more
After the 1942 deportation of his boyfriend, 19-year-old Jewish Berliner Gad Beck vowed to help others escape the same fate.... more
When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940, 36-year-old conductor Frieda Belinfante disbanded her orchestra and dedicated herself to helping... more
In 1939, French teenager Pierre Seel had his watch stolen at a cruising spot in his hometown. When he reported... more
Polish teenager Stefan Kosinski was beaten, tortured, and sent to prison. His crime? He fell in love with a Viennese... more
In our second introductory episode, we focus on life in the Nazi concentration camps and offer a glimpse into the... more
In this first of two introductory episodes, hear how the walls closed in on LGBTQ people after Hitler came to... more
Host Eric Marcus welcomes listeners to MGH’s “Nazi Era” series by going back in time to 1980 and a darkened... more