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From Rubble to Roots
by Center for Jewish History
Welcome to From Rubble to Roots, a new podcast from the Center for Jewish History and Ancestry®, the global leader in family history. Every family has roots. But some lie buried deep beneath rubble, under the weight of war, loss, and silence. In this podcast, we follow Holocaust survivors and their children as they gather what remains, hold onto what they can, and try to understand what it means to inherit such a history.
Episodes
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From Podcast to Exhibit and Everything in Between: The Making of From Rubble to Roots
In this special reunion episode, host and curator Miriam Malka Frankel sits down with two From Rubble to Roots participants, Paul Goldstein, featured in Episode 5, and Lyn Stiefel Hill, featured in Episode 3, to reflect on what happened before, during, and after their family stories became part…
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From Łódź to Liberty: The Story of Michal Boruch Knaster
In the Season 1 finale of From Rubble to Roots, Mirka Knaster shares the story of her father, Michal Boruch Knaster, a Holocaust survivor who endured the unthinkable and lived when nearly everyone he loved did not. Forced into the Łódź Ghetto, he pulled 2,000‑kg carts under constant beatings,...
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The Man Who Helped Plan The Treblinka Uprising: The Story of Samuel Goldstein
Born in Kozienice, Poland, Samuel Goldstein was the youngest of twelve children in a devout Orthodox Jewish family. When the Nazis invaded, his world was shattered: his family was forced into a ghetto, his parents were murdered, and he was sent to Treblinka, one of history’s deadliest…
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The Survivor Who Can't Remember Surviving: The Story of Ernie Brod
He survived the Nazis, but remembers none of it. Born in Vienna just weeks after the Anschluss, his father vanished into a Nazi prison, his brother was sent away on the Kindertransport, and he and his mother were confined in a Jewish encampment with almost no chance of release. Their escape...
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Surviving Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport: The Story of Erica Gorin
Born into comfort in 1920s Berlin, she fed elephants at the zoo and slipped secret poems of gratitude beneath the challah cover. Then comfort turned to chaos. The world turned against her. At sixteen, she crossed an ocean alone, seasick, heartbroken, clutching hope tightly. By nineteen, she was...
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The Man Who Escaped Death Ten Times- The Story of Isak Borenstein
He cheated death more than ten times. From brutal labor camps to near-executions, from collapsing mountains to unexploded bombs, Isak Borenstein endured horrors that defy imagination. He survived shootings, beatings, starvation, forced labor, and the relentless cruelty of the Holocaust…
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Surviving Trembowla: The Story of Judith Koppel
What would you do if everything you knew and loved was torn away, simply because of who you are? This was the world Judith Koppel was thrust into. Before the war, Judith was a fearless tomboy, a gifted student, and the fastest student swimmer in Trembowla, Poland. Before long, her world was...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to From Rubble to Roots, a new podcast from the Center for Jewish History and Ancestry®, the global leader in family history. Every family has roots. But some lie buried deep beneath rubble, under the weight of war, loss, and silence. In this podcast, we follow Holocaust survivors and their children as they gather what remains, hold onto what they can, and try to understand what it means to inherit such a history.
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Welcome to From Rubble to Roots, a new podcast from the Center for Jewish History and Ancestry®, the global leader in family history. Every family has roots. But some lie buried deep beneath rubble, under the weight of war, loss, and silence. In this podcast, we follow Holocaust survivors and their...
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From Rubble to Roots is created and hosted by Center for Jewish History.
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