Summary of Barbara Winton's One Life

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We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (Scholastic Focus)

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Churchill's German Army: The Germans who fought for Britain

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The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews

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We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance (Scholastic Focus)

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Berlin Diaries: 1940-1945

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Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of our Time

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Summary of Roxane van Iperen's The Sisters of Auschwitz

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Fearless Spies and Daring Deeds of World War II

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Bonhoeffer Abridged: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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Behind the Fireplace: Memoirs of a Girl Working in the Dutch Resistance

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Brave Heroes and Bold Defenders: 50 True Stories of Daring Men of God

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Inseparable: The Hess Twins' Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America

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The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust

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The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, A Daughter's Quest and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust

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Magdalene

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Two Slices of Bread: Interned in a Japanese concentration camp, then finding peace at last at the bottom of the world

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Summary of Leah Garrett's X Troop

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Irena Sendler

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Europe Against the Jews: 1880-1945

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Anne Frank's Diary: A Testament of Hope and Resilience: Unveiling the Untold Story of a Young Girl's Courage in the Face of Darkness

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Summary of Tony Judt's Thinking the Twentieth Century

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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

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Summary of Norman Lebrecht's Genius & Anxiety

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Mother Teresa: Caring for the World's Poor

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Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

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Searching for Home: The Impact of WWII on a Hidden Child

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The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492

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Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned With the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler

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A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

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History Is Wrong

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Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)

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Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe

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Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir

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Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse”

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Heavy: An American Memoir

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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

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Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals

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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

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The Exotic

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Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative

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Black Boy

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Just as I Am: A Memoir

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)

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Heart Berries: A Memoir

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Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

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Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks

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12 Years a Slave

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Up From Slavery, with eBook

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Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir

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Another Word for Love: A Memoir

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Survival of the Thickest: Essays

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What Winners Won't Tell You: Lessons from a Legendary Defender

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Living History: The Life of Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld Part II: Part 2: While some people read history, there are rare people who lived history through their own lives. One such individual was Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld (1923-2020). Born in Vienna into a family of Ger chassidim from Poland, his father's position as Gener...

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The History of Wartime Internment in Canada: At the outset of World War II, a number of Canadian citizens of German and Italian decent, as well as Jews who were immigrating to Canada, fleeing Europe were rounded up and put into internment camps. After the Japanese attack on the United States in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, on 6 December, 1941, North Americans were afraid. The Second World War had come far too close to home. Just over a month after the Pearl Harbour attack, a process began which saw the mass internment of Japanese Canadians from 1942 until 1949. Many of the detainees, including women and children, had been born in Canada. The country they’d grown up to love had uprooted them from their homes, seized their properties and taken away their rights and freedoms.

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The Jews of Scandinavia Part I: The more recent and relatively small Jewish communities of Scandinavia serve as an interesting chapter in Jewish history. While Finland was part of the Russian Empire for a time, the other Scandinavian countries had Jewish communities as well. This episo...

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Holocaust history: Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day (Jan 27) Anne McElvoy hears testimony and new research

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Living History: The Life of Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld Part I: While some people read history, there are rare people who lived history through their own lives. One such individual was Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld (1923-2020). Born in Vienna into a family of Ger chassidim from Poland, his father's position as General Secre...

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Jewish Saviors of the Holocaust Part I: Monsieur & the Belgian Orphans: Jewish History Soundbites is proud to launch a special series entitled ‘Jewish Saviors of the Holocaust’. It will explore the narratives of Jews under Nazi occupation risking their lives to save others during the Holocaust. Each unique profile will explo...

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The Kindertransport children: Children fleeing the Nazis, a breakthrough in criminal forensics, plus Nina Simone

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Free Thinking. Bernard MacLaverty. Immigration. Christian destruction of Classical World: The Northern Irish author of Cal talks to Anne McElvoy about his new novel Midwinter Break

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Unlikeliest of Exits: The Dramatic Escape of the Rayatz: In one of the most daring rescue schemes of the Holocaust era, Rav Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the sixth Lubavitch Rebbe, the Rayatz (1880-1950) was whisked out of Nazi occupied Poland by agents of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence.  His follow...

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Escaping Hitler and Stalin

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Randy Grigsby, "A Train to Palestine: The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019): An interview with Randy Grigsby

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Foreign Missionaries & American Diplomacy in the 19th Century

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Professor Peter Hennessy, historian: Peter Hennessy, historian, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

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375. Hitler and the Mitford Sisters

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One Life: The 'British Schindler' Nicky Winton & The Kindertransport: How Nicholas Winton masterminded an effort that saved the lives of 669 Jewish Children on the eve of World War Two.

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Jewish History of Venice: Essential to any history of Venice during its glory days is the story of its Jewish population.

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Madeleine Albright (1937-2022): Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright was an American diplomat — the first female Secretary of State in US history. Madeleine was born in Czechoslovakia 1937. During her early childhood, her parents converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1941 to avoid anti-Jewish persecution.

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The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto: Polish aid worker Irena Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto in WW2

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Susan Gilson Miller, "Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2021): An interview with Susan Gilson Miller

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Holocaust Survivor Manny Korman - Yom Hashoah Event at MJE: Rabbi Wildes interviews Holocaust survivor Manny Korman at MJE in front of a packed audience to commemorate Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). The event concluded with some inspiring words from Israel's Minister of Aliyah and Integration and member of the Knesset Ofir Sofer and a stirring rendition of The Hatikvah. Manny Korman was born on December 21, 1931 in Hamburg Germany. Shortly before his 7th birthday, he and his family were taken from their home by the Nazis, and expelled into Poland where he and his older brother Gerd were eventually separated from their parents. After an incredible series of events (which you will hear in this episode) Manny and his brother found his way to England right as WW2 broke out in 1939. The brothers eventually found their way to Brooklyn, NY. Manny attended Queens College and started an illustrious career in education including being the principal of Adrien Block Junior High School i

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22. The Czar Is Dead

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From Cromwell to Montefiore: The Jews of London Part II: Following the Edict of Expulsion in 1290, no organized Jewish life existed in England for centuries. Following the Spanish Expulsion in 1492, a few Conversos secretly settled in England under a Christian identity. The official resettlement of Jews in Eng...

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Mildred Harnack: American Grad Student/Berlin Resistance Leader: Rebecca Donner shares the story of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, and her small band of political activists who grew into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin by 1940.z

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Our House: Stories of the Holocaust: Meet the Berliners tracing the plight of Jewish families who once lived in their flats

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Patrick Hicks, "In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program" (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020): An interview with Patrick Hicks

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Mark Jantzen and John D. Thiesen, "European Mennonites and the Holocaust" (U Toronto Press, 2021): An interview with Mark Jantzen

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Life Under Russian Occupation: A Ukrainian woman's tale of what happened when Russian troops took over her city

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Interview with Nelly Grussgott on post-war Williamsburg, Brooklyn: This video is part of a research project to document the way Hasidim came to America after the war and turned Williamsburg into an insular religious enclave. Nelly Grussgott was born in 1930 in Berlin. In 1940, she and her mother fled nazi Germany...

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The Great Shanghai Escape Part I: In this new series launched by Jewish History Soundbites, we’ll explore the story of the escape to Shanghai from war torn Europe during the early stages of World War II. Among the thousands of Jewish refugees who obtained visas was the Mir Yeshiva. T...

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44: Dave Kunst – Walk Around the World – Part 1: Dave Kunst was the first to walk around the world in the modern era in 1970-74. His walk was inspiring but also resulted in death, deception, and betrayal