On New Year’s Day, 1950, in a synagogue in Abbey Road in North London, Paul and Anitta began their life together. In the 1960s, Paul insisted on visiting Vienna. But why, asked his wife Anitta. “To kill a ghost,” Paul said.
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S12E2: Anitta's Story
A few months later, Anitta’s parents took her to the train station and sent her on a Kindertransport to England. But would her parents find a way out?
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S12E1: Paul's Story
We begin this episode in Vienna’s second district in 1938, and it was from an apartment on Springergasse that a 15-year old Jewish boy sent a letter to England, begging for help.
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S11E3: Theodore Magder
Zhanna Litinskaya, from our Kyiv office, spent three weeks in Chisinau in 2004 interviewing elderly Holocaust survivors. Zhanna spent three afternoons with the head of the community, Theodor Magder, who spoke of surviving the war, working as a journalist during the Communist years, and how he joined the government once Moldova became independent.
Read by Steve Furst in London.
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S11E2: Polina Leibovich
Still teaching school at the age of 79, Polina Leibovich shares with us her story of a happy childhood and how she managed to survive hell in the camps of Transnistria.
Interviewed for Centrpa by Natalia Fomina in 2004, Polina also tells us about finding a husband, raising a family and devoting her life to teaching.
Read by Sara Kestelman in London.
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