The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah

Louis Brandsdorfer

My mother's story of the Shoah - told in Yiddish

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14_ Yenta and Sara

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah

06/04/08 • 9 min

Yenta and Sara, my mother's 2 youngest sisters come to Birkenau. The three of them are reunited, but only for a short while as disease and the gas chamber take both of them.

13_Mala Zimetbaum

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah

06/04/08 • 3 min

My mother is rescued from the gas chamber by Mala Zimetbaum. Later Mala Zimetbaum escapes from Auschwitz with a male accomplice. After a few days they are caught and executed in front of the whole camp.

12_Birkenau

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah

06/04/08 • 17 min

My mother goes to work in Birkenau, part of Auschwitz, the large death camp in Poland.

11-Majdanek

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah

06/04/08 • 15 min

Packed into a crowded freight car my mother is sent from Warsaw to the Majdanek. Majdanek was the major concentration camp on the eastern side of Poland.

10_Uprising

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah

06/04/08 • 8 min

In April 1943, the Germans conduct a final aktion to clear the Warsaw ghetto. The Jewish partisans of the ghetto create the Passover uprising and my mother goes into hiding with the other Jews in her building.

9 - Aktion

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah

06/04/08 • 5 min

An aktion was what the inhabitants of the ghetto called the German military operations to capture and remove the Jews from the ghetto. My mother describes the aktion that catches the last of the children and sends them to Treblinka.

8 - Werterfassung

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah

06/04/08 • 7 min

With most of the ghetto's Jewish population removed, my mother was assigned to a work detail (Werterfassung in German) that gathered all the valuables from the emptied apartments.

7 - Warsaw

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah

06/04/08 • 12 min

My mother and her daughter are captured in the Warsaw train station, trying to get to the east to find her brother. They are put in prison with other Jews caught outside the ghetto.

6 - Running

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah

06/04/08 • 14 min

Having no place left to hide near her home town, my mother and her daughter travel around Poland looking for a safe place to hide from the Germans.

15_The Bleeding Sky

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah

06/04/08 • 11 min

With the fires in Birkenue burning all the time, to dispose of the bodies of the murdered Jews, the ash turns the evening sky blood red. My mother describes this vision of hell that was Auschwitz.

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How many episodes does The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah have?

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah currently has 22 episodes available.

What topics does The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah cover?

The podcast is about History, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts, Judaism, Holocaust and World War 2.

What is the most popular episode on The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah?

The episode title '21_Returning' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah?

The average episode length on The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah is 10 minutes.

When was the first episode of The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah?

The first episode of The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah was released on Jun 4, 2008.

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The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah

Louis Brandsdorfer

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