For Yom HaShoah (Holocaust commemoration day), which occurs this year on Apr. 23, 2017, we present interviews conducted today with Holocaust survivors Yakob Basner and Judy Altmann. Basner was born and raised in Riga, Latvia. He survived the Riga ghetto, five concentration camps, and a death march. We reached Basner by phone at his home in Seal Beach, CA. Altmann was born and raised in Jasina, Czechoslovakia, a small town in the Carpathian mountains (now Yasinya, Ukraine). She survived Auschwitz, labor camps, and a death march to the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. We reached Altmann by phone at her home in Stamford, CT.

Air Date: April 19, 2017

Interview with the Sylvia Bialik, organizer of the "Yiddish Idol" ("Der Yidisher Idol") in Mexico City, a Yiddish singing and songwriting competition whose submission deadline comes later this month (April 23, 2017). See also "Der Yidisher Idol" web site (in Spanish and English):

http://deridisheridol.com

Also on this week's show:

Pesach music and Pesach greetings from sponsors and friends.

Hasia Segal: Di Veltlekhe Hagode (highlights of the Arbeter Ring haggadah; from 1991)

Air Date: April 12, 2017

Interview with the reporter known as Jake Turx, Whitehouse correspondent for Ami Magazine. His question about anti-semitism at the first press conference of President Donald Trump on Feb. 16 caused a stir because Trump became angry at him, cutting him off, telling him to sit down, and accusing him of dishonesty. "A Jewish Reporter Got to Ask Trump a Question.", read a New York Times headline on Feb. 17, 2017, "It Didn’t Go Well." (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/us/politics/trump-press-conference-jake-turx.html)

See also Jake Turx's page at Ami Magazine:

http://www.amimagazine.org/author/jake-turx/

And follow Jake on Twitter: @JakeTurx

Also on this week's show:

Pesach music and Pesach greetings from sponsors and friends.

News report by Avremi Zaks via Kol Yisrael in Jerusalem (http://www.iba.org.il/world/)

Air Date: April 5, 2017

Replays of some of our best Pesach presentations:

• Hasia Segal: Di Veltlekhe Hagode (highlights of the Arbeter Ring haggadah; from 1991)

Pesach music by Bruce Adler, Richard Tucker, and Moyshe Oysher

Pesach greetings by Dovid Braun, Iosif Lakhman, Misha Khazin, Shimshon Ehrenfeld, Eli Dovek, and Max Gelerman (z"l).

News report by Avremi Zaks via Kol Yisrael in Jerusalem (http://www.iba.org.il/world/)

Air Date: Mar. 29, 2017

Interview with Esti Shnek (maiden name: Jahr), born in Jasina, Czechoslovakia, in 1924, survivor of Auschwitz, and now a resident of Haifa, interviewed at her home in February 2017.

News report by Avremi Zaks via Kol Yisrael in Jerusalem (http://www.iba.org.il/world/)

From the archives: Hasia Segal interviews Brukhe Kipnis, daughter of famed Yiddish writer Itzik Kipnis (from the 1990's). (This is the second part of the interview: the first part aired the previous week.) Further info: http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Kipnis_Itsik

Air Date: Mar. 22, 2017