The Effect on Us - Eliane Goldstein's Podcast

In this episode I am talking to Joseph (Joe) Sabrin, one of the youngest Holocaust Survivors, who was born on December 21, 1942, in the Vilna Ghetto, in Lithunia .

Years later Joe wrote the book "We dared to live" a story of survival and courage during the dark days of WWII based on his father's memoir.

In this episode I am talking to Marlene who tells me how her family escaped from the Nazis from Poland to Uzbeskistan and Siberia.

In this episode, I am talking to Lee Sterling who tells me how his family escaped and how in 1939 Jews, gypsies, communists, and gays - everyone that the Germans wanted to annihilate, walked towards Bordeaux France so that they can run away from the Nazis.

Aristides de Sousa Mendes the Portuguese consul-general in the French city of Bordeaux , France, he defied the orders of the Salazar Portoguese regime, and in June 1940 issued visas and passports to an undetermined number of Jews and other refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. 

For this, Sousa Mendes was punished by the Salazar regime.
For his work to save jews, Sousa Mendes received the honour Righteous Among the Nations from Yad Va’Shem.

In this episode I am talking to Eve Kugler who tells me about her childhood during the war and how when she was 6 years old, a uniformed Nazi solider grabbed her from her mother and started swinging her around. After a few minutes he congratulated her mother for "having the perfect Aryan child".

Tune in to her story.

In this episode I am talking to Ruth Hubner Cohen who tells me about her survival. Her mother and her were starving and without much choice, her mother used to sneak in food after dark, and put herself in danger. 
One time dogs chased her and she was so scared that she not only stopped trying to bring in food but she feared dogs for the rest of her life.

In this episode I am talking to Frank who went into hiding and had to take care of himself since he was 14 years old, after his parents were taken away.

How did he survive?

Tune in to listen to the clever idea that he had .

In this episode I am taking to Julius Maslovat who tells me how his family went to hide in a bunker when his mother was pregnant because she was scares that the Nazis will shoot her.

His story during the Holocaust can be found in the film: Why Am I Here? A Child's Journey Through the Holocaust.

In this episode I am talking to Sally Singer (100 years old*), Anne Novak (99 years old*) and Ruth Zimmer (95 years old*), who together with with their brother Sol Fink (97 years old*), all live in Winnipeg, Canada, and are likely the oldest living set of Holocaust survivor siblings anywhere in the world.

The four siblings spent their youth in Sanok, Poland, near the Carpathian Mountains. 

What happened when the war started? Tune in.

Tune in to their amazing stories.

* the ages are as of September 3, 2022.

In this episode I am talking to Rachel who was born in Siberia. Her mother received no prenatal care and she weighted less than 2 pounds (=900 grams).
Later, when she was still very young, about 100 children, herself included, were put on open freight carts and shipped to the next prison. Because of the cold weather and exposure, only 10 children survived.

Tune in  to listen to her story.

In this episode I am talking to Max Eisen who lived through a 13-day death march from Auschwitz to Loslau and there he was loaded onto metal boxcars made for transporting coal and sent to Mauthausen and then from Melk he participated in a three-day march in the mountains to Ebensee until he was liberated on May 6, 1945.

Max Eisen is the author of the book "By Chance Alone", a story of courage, determination, and resiliency. He received the  Order of Canada award on December 29th, 2021 for his contributions to Holocaust education, and for his promotion of transformational dialogue on human rights, tolerance and respect.

The Order of Canada is one of the highest civilian honours.