Messy History
History is the story of individuals. A British immigration officer leaves for work on a cold morning in 1939 - not knowing that day he will be required to make a split-second decision that saves a boy’s life. A shipping clerk notices the exploitation of a nation – and starts a movement that brings down a king. Human beings can be both wonderful and terrible. People are messy. These are some of their stories.
Episodes
A short except from a survivor of the Ukrainian Hunger Famines. In solemn remembrance of the millions who perished.
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Execution By Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust, Miron Dolot, 1985
We discuss the experiences of Edward Adler, a Jewish man in 1930's Germany, as he describes growing anti-semitism, being forced to build one of the first extermination camps, and his narrow escape after Kristallnacht. And that one time he was a kid and joined the Nazis - before they found out he was a Jew.
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Germany - a sign on a Jewish store: Protect Yourselves, Germans, Do Not Buy From Jews.
Yad Vashem A...
Today we talk about Leopold II, King of Belgium from 1865-1909, and his personal empire in the African Congo. This is the story of a man who put his pocketbook ahead of a people, the nation he enslaved, and the global cast of writers and advocates that worked to bring him down.
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In The Rubber Coils. Scene - The Congo 'Free' State" Linley Sambourne depicts King Leopold II of Belgium as a snake attacking a Congolese...
We discuss the Kindertransport program through which around 10,000 children were saved from Nazi occupied Europe from November 1938 until German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940.
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A picture of one of the tags that children wore around their neck when arriving in Britain, as a way for them to meet with their foster families. This numbered identification tag was worn by Henry Schmelzer when he was a member of a Kindertransp...
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