Esta serie de podcasts presenta extractos de entrevistas con sobrevivientes del Holocausto realizados para el programa público, Primera Persona: conversaciones con sobrevivientes del Holocausto.
We're surrounded by propaganda all the time: some of it benign, some of it dangerous. Propaganda was used to devastating effect during the Holocaust and it's worth studying to understand why and how we are vulnerable to propaganda in our everyday lives. This episode is a collage of people discussing their own relationship to propaganda, and the ways in which they guard against it
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 in Poland living under false papers identifying her as a Catholic.
Halina Peabody discusses living in Jaroslaw, Poland, under false papers identifying her as a Catholic. A local woman took Halina and her mother and sister in and gave them a place to live, while never suspecting they were Jews hiding as Catholics.
Since the Holocaust, social psychologists have asked: Why do people succumb to evil? Theories point to peer pressure and the power of conformity. But Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher reject the idea that people become automatons in a group. Their mock-prison study reveals something more complex about the ways individuals sign on to a brutal agenda.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the second woman to serve on the US Supreme Court. Here, she reflects on her own Jewish identity, free speech, and antisemitism today.
Soon after September 11, 2001, Robert Satloff moved to Rabat, Morocco, to search for Arab heroes during the Holocaust. Listen to him explain why.
Gerda Klein survived the Holocaust and was liberated by an American soldier who she eventually married. Here, Klein discusses her understanding of hatred and antisemitism today.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali describes herself as a "dissident of Islam." Despite threats to her life, Ali remains outspoken about freedom of expression, hatred of Jews, and reform of Islam.
For more than forty years, Father John Pawlikowski has urged Catholics and others to confront the long history of Christian antisemitism.
Listen as Christopher Caldwell explains that the recent wave of Muslim immigration has brought a new strain of antisemitism to Europe.
