61 episodes

The Effect on Us is a podcast on controversial subjects for people of all ages (kids and teenagers are especially invited to listen). The first season is about the Holocaust and the ties it has to people nowadays. You will be able to hear the stories of Holocaust survivors, their children and grandchildren and the effects the Holocaust had on people from generation one to generation three. The host is Eliane Goldstein, a 13 year old young lady from Montreal, Canada, who is interested in raising awareness and educating people on controversial issues and topics without sugar-coating it.

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The Effect on Us is a podcast on controversial subjects for people of all ages (kids and teenagers are especially invited to listen). The first season is about the Holocaust and the ties it has to people nowadays. You will be able to hear the stories of Holocaust survivors, their children and grandchildren and the effects the Holocaust had on people from generation one to generation three. The host is Eliane Goldstein, a 13 year old young lady from Montreal, Canada, who is interested in raising awareness and educating people on controversial issues and topics without sugar-coating it.

    Most children around me died - an interview with Joseph (Joe) Sabrin

    Most children around me died - an interview with Joseph (Joe) Sabrin

    In this episode I am talking to Joseph (Joe) Sabrin, one of the youngest Holocaust Survivors, who was born on December 21, 1942, in the Vilna Ghetto, in Lithunia .

    Years later Joe wrote the book "We dared to live" a story of survival and courage during the dark days of WWII based on his father's memoir.

    • 28 min
    When we run away I lost my coat and one shoe and got cut but my mother did not let me stop- an interview with Marlene Listwa

    When we run away I lost my coat and one shoe and got cut but my mother did not let me stop- an interview with Marlene Listwa

    In this episode I am talking to Marlene who tells me how her family escaped from the Nazis from Poland to Uzbeskistan and Siberia.

    • 26 min
    My family escaped thanks to the Aristides de Sousa Mendes visa - an interview with Lee Sterling

    My family escaped thanks to the Aristides de Sousa Mendes visa - an interview with Lee Sterling

    In this episode, I am talking to Lee Sterling who tells me how his family escaped and how in 1939 Jews, gypsies, communists, and gays - everyone that the Germans wanted to annihilate, walked towards Bordeaux France so that they can run away from the Nazis.

    Aristides de Sousa Mendes the Portuguese consul-general in the French city of Bordeaux , France, he defied the orders of the Salazar Portoguese regime, and in June 1940 issued visas and passports to an undetermined number of Jews and other refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. 

    For this, Sousa Mendes was punished by the Salazar regime.
    For his work to save jews, Sousa Mendes received the honour Righteous Among the Nations from Yad Va’Shem.

    • 40 min
    When I was 6 years old, a uniformed Nazi solider grabbed me from my mother - an interview with Eve Kugler

    When I was 6 years old, a uniformed Nazi solider grabbed me from my mother - an interview with Eve Kugler

    In this episode I am talking to Eve Kugler who tells me about her childhood during the war and how when she was 6 years old, a uniformed Nazi solider grabbed her from her mother and started swinging her around. After a few minutes he congratulated her mother for "having the perfect Aryan child".

    Tune in to her story.

    • 35 min
    We were starving and my mother used to sneak us food - an interview with Ruth Cohen

    We were starving and my mother used to sneak us food - an interview with Ruth Cohen

    In this episode I am talking to Ruth Hubner Cohen who tells me about her survival. Her mother and her were starving and without much choice, her mother used to sneak in food after dark, and put herself in danger. 
    One time dogs chased her and she was so scared that she not only stopped trying to bring in food but she feared dogs for the rest of her life.

    • 52 min
    I was hiding in a Nazi soldier's house - an interview with Frank Weinfeld

    I was hiding in a Nazi soldier's house - an interview with Frank Weinfeld

    In this episode I am talking to Frank who went into hiding and had to take care of himself since he was 14 years old, after his parents were taken away.

    How did he survive?

    Tune in to listen to the clever idea that he had .

    • 19 min

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LeahD2 ,

Great podcast!

Wonderful podcast. Such an important and always timely topic. The host asks such thoughtful and provoking questions to her guests, to help educate her listeners. Thank you for introducing us to these amazing survivors!

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