Daniel Finkelstein, a political columnist for The Times of London, joins guest host John McCaa to discuss his family’s history – a mother who fled Nazi Germany only to be sent to a concentration camp and a father whose family was sent to Siberia.
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Dara Horn joins us to talk about the most well-known victim of the Holocaust and what she might have become.
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Bruce Henderson joins us to tell the story of the fighters known as The Ritchie Boys, who acquired intelligence crucial to defeating the Nazis.
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Novelist Rachel Kadish’s grandparents survived the Holocaust. Novelist Jessica Shattuck’s grandparents were members of the Nazi party. They join us to talk about their friendship.
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This hour, we’ll talk about if it will ever not be “too soon” to crack a joke about the Holocaust with Ferne Pearlstein. She explores one of comedy’s most taboo topics with Mel Brooks, Louis C.K., Chris Rock and other comedians in her documentary “The Last Laugh,” which screens Thursday as part of Videofest.
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We’ll talk with about how the discovery of a family home movie sent a man on a transcontinental mission to reconstruct the memory of his ancestral home.
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How did the tragic Nazi perpetration of the holocaust against European Jews affect other minority groups?
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