8. "Good" Crimes: Emma Goldman & Irena Sendler

Our pets are the only thing keeping us sane during this pandemic. We briefly ponder the family status of our pets...are they our pseudo siblings? Parents? Children? Eventually, we keep things light by talking about some good crimes. Nathalie starts us off with the story of Emma Goldman, a political activist and writer. Goldman was an anarchist who championed for women’s and worker’s rights. She illegally distributed information about birth control and was arrested many times for her protests. Rachel tells the story of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who smuggled children out of German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. She was arrested by the Gestapo and tortured, but she refused to give up the names of the children or her associates. Music by Joseph McDade www.patreon.com/josephmcdade/posts Nathalie's Sources https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/MeetEmmaGoldman/birthcontrolpioneer.html https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/birth-control-pioneer-arrested https://jwa.org/womenofvalor/goldman/womens-rights/birth-control https://time.com/4208056/emma-goldman-1916-birth-control/ https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/february-11/ https://muvs.org/en/topics/pioneers/emma-goldman-1869-1940-en/ Rachel's Sources: Irena Sendler https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/irena-sendler Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project, by Jack Mayer https://www.jackmayer.net/life-in-a-jar Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, is Dead at 98, by Dennis Hevesi https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/world/europe/13sendler.html Irena Sendler, Polish Social Worker, by The Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Irena-Sendler Irena Sendler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler