Today we're traveling back to 1960s Poland with a listener request episode on Ida! Join us as we learn about "enemies of the people", Helena Wolinska-Bruce, historical examples of people hiding in the woods, and more!

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Order of St. Augustine official website: https://beafriar.org/blog-archive/2016/12/27/the-postures-and-gestures-of-ordination

Julie Keefer, "In Hiding," United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/echoes-of-memory/in-hiding Charlene Schiff, "The Girl from the Forest," USHMM, https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/echoes-of-memory/the-girl-from-the-forest and "For a Rainy Day (Men Zol Nit Bedarfen)" https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/echoes-of-memory/for-a-rainy-day-men-zol-nit-bedarfen J.P. O'Malley, "'Into The Forest' Tells Story Of One Family's Escape From Nazi-Created Zhetel Ghetto," NPR (7 September 2021). https://www.npr.org/2021/09/07/1034739946/into-the-forest-tells-story-of-one-familys-escape-from-nazi-created-zhetel-ghett

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Jan C. Behrends, "Rokossowski Coming Home: The Making and Breaking of an (Inter)-National Hero in Stalinist Poland," The Hungarian Historical Review 5, 4 (2016) Renata Sczcepanik, Gavin Simpson, and Sabina Siebert, "Prison Officers in Poland," Communist and Post-Communist Studies 47, 1 (2014) Piotr J. Wrobel, "Class War or Ethnic Cleansing? Soviet Deporations of Polish Citizens from the Eastern Provinces of Poland, 1939-1941," The Polish Review 59, 2 (2014)