New Hampshire Holocaust Survivors Speak

Laura Knoy's picture
By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, September 29, 2004.
listen: Listen with Windows Media Player

New Hampshire Holocaust Survivors Speak Out - A new documentary, Telling Their Stories: New Hampshire Holocaust Survivors Speak Out tells the story of four Holocaust survivors, their trials during WW2 Europe and their journeys that brought them from their home countries of Germany, Poland and Hungry to New Hampshire. We?ll hear some of their stories as well as look at the importance of keeping this time in history, now 60-years old, alive. Laura?s guests are Stephen Lewy, featured in the documentary, he?s a Holocaust survivor living in Manchester who escaped Germany, joined the US Army, and participated in the liberation of Buchenwald in 1945. Paul Vincent, Associate Professor and Director of the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies at Keene State College. Thomas Weisshaus, A Holocaust survivor living in Exeter who was one of the thousands of Hungarian-Jews helped by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and David DeArville, Director of Telling Their Stories.

Related news:

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
The Car Graveyard

Thursday, August 21, 2008
The Glass Menagerie: A Review

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
An Ideal Husband: A Review

Related shows:

Friday, August 29, 2008
Underground Dinner Clubs

Friday, August 29, 2008
Here's What's Awesome: Art Abandonments, Perks for Bikers

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Documenting A Disease

NPR News