The Effect on Us - Eliane Goldstein's Podcast
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.
The Effect on Us - Eliane Goldstein's Podcast
My family escaped thanks to the Aristides de Sousa Mendes visa - an interview with Lee Sterling
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Eliane Goldstein
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Season 1
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Episode 58
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.