Use Your Words

Use Your Words

By Sam Futrell & Rebekah O'DellEducation
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Use Your Words episodes

  • Books So Good You'll Finish Them "All In One Day"

    Book reviews from June (The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas), Magovern (The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins), Charlotte (Other Words from Home by Jasmine Warga), Sarah Carter (New Kid by Jerry Craft), Libby (Today, Tonight, Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon), and Umber (Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi).

    11 min
  • "Music and War, Longing and Loss"

    Book Reviews from Norah (Lovely War by Julie Berry), Matthew (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams), Jonah (Lost in the Pacific 1942: Not a Drop to Drink by Tod Olson), Ryan (Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay), Tucker (The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton), and James (And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie)

    10 min
  • Rosalia Katz Kaplan: A Story of Resistance, Capture, and Liberation from the Grip of the Holocaust

    In this episode, listen to the story of Holocaust Survivor Rosalia (Rosalina) Katz Kaplan. Rosalia made her way through the Resistance network in Holland to an estimated 20 different safe houses while hiding from the Nazis as a young girl from 1941-1944.  After being captured in 1944, Rosalia survived three concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was used for medical experiments. Despite her incredible experiences, Rosalia shared a message of love and tolerance with students around the state of Virginia until she died in 2017. This story is an abridged version her 2006 interview recorded by the Virginia Holocaust Museum. 

    15 min
  • Clara Daniels: Surviving the Holocaust from Hungary to Auschwitz
    Our student June describes Holocaust survivor Clara Daniels as a well dressed, soft spoken woman who survived the unspeakable. Clara lived in Hungary during WWII, and was sent to Auschwitz after Hitler's invasion in 1944. In Auschwitz, Clara experienced true horrors, like being forced to watch executions, do hard labor, and suffer starvation. But June tells us that along with luck, Clara’s positive spirit and connection to other women helped her to survive the concentration camp. June was saddened to learn of Clara's death in 2018, and this episode is dedicated to Clara's life and memory.
    14 min
  • George Landecker: Can a Man be both German and a Jew?

    George Landecker is a happy, kind, bald, slow speaking, gentle 84 year old man wearing a white and blue striped shirt. Prior to WW2, George had a pretty good life living with a middle class family in a decent sized home. Despite his father thinking “he was more of a German than a Jew,” this all changed in 1939 at the onset of the war. In this episode, our seventh grade student, Sam, reveals how George’s life was thrown into chaos.

    12 min
  • Julianna Toth: Born into War

    Julianna Toth, a Holocaust survivor, was born into world war in 1941. Listen to seventh grader Molly retell Julianna and her family's harrowing experiences of living through the Holocaust and Russian occupation of Hungary from the 1930s to 1967.  This epic story spans generations, providing listeners with context of WW2 and Cold War hostility toward the Jewish people and the Jew's power to overcome discrimination.

    20 min

About Use Your Words

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This is Use Your Words, a seasonal podcast featuring the voices and perspectives of middle school students. Each season, lovable, insightful, awkward middle schoolers craft episodes on topics they’re…