Stories about my grandfather's people. Both before and during World War II, and also before.
In the 1890's a team of physicians and scientists discovered the cause of bubonic plague, a bacteria they named Yersinia Pestis. It was assumed for most of the 20th century that Yersinia Pestis also c...Show More
On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag, a grand building that housed the German legislature in Berlin, was set afire. One man was caught in the act, but had he set the blaze alone? Was he a patsy? Was th...Show More
Growing up Noah knew his grandparents had survived the Holocaust, but his questions had always been sidelined.
As a child, Ariana Neumann stumbled upon a strange photo of her father, tucked away in a secret box he kept in his workshop. It was undeniably him, and yet the name in the caption didnāt belong to the...Show More
A Cherokee leader is murdered in 1839 for signing a treaty with the United States, but the promise he died for was broken. Learn more: thislandpodcast.com
When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants, each of them high-ranking members of Nazi Germany's death squad. The entire world was watching. To...Show More
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This story makes me wonder if everyone of Jewish ancestry has these feelings. Of desperately trying to find our family's story because one group of people tried to exterminate us all.