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.
Episodes
61 episodes
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 60
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28:55
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.
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Season 1
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Episode 59
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26:08
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 fro...
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Season 1
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Episode 58
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40:06
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 congratula...
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Season 1
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Episode 57
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35:46
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 h...
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Season 1
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Episode 56
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52:52
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 .
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Season 1
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Episode 55
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19:55
I was born in a bunker because the Nazis were shooting pregnant women - an interview with Julius Maslovat
In this episode I am taking to Julius Maslovat who tells me how his family went to hide in a bunker when his mother was pregnant because she was scares that the Nazis will shoot her.His story during the Holocaust can be found in the...
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Season 1
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Episode 54
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29:34
"We kept asking, what did we do? What is our crime? Where are you taking us"?- an interview with Sally Singer, Anne Novak and Ruth Zimmer
In this episode I am talking to Sally Singer (100 years old*), Anne Novak (99 years old*) and Ruth Zimmer (95 years old*), who together with with their brother Sol Fink (97 years old*), all live in Winnipeg, Canada, and are likely the oldest li...
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Season 1
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Episode 53
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36:06
Out of 100 children on a freezing train, about 10 kids including me survived - an interview with Rachel (Rae) Gropper
In this episode I am talking to Rachel who was born in Siberia. Her mother received no prenatal care and she weighted less than 2 pounds (=900 grams).Later, when she was still very young, about 100 children, herself included, were put on op...
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Season 1
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Episode 52
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29:02
The Nazis took away 90% percent of the men who were the bread winners - an interview with Max Eisen
In this episode I am talking to Max Eisen who lived through a 13-day death march from Auschwitz to Loslau and there he was loaded onto metal boxcars made for transporting coal and sent to Mauthausen and then from Melk he participated in a three...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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38:59
My mother watched horrified how the Nazis murdered her sister and her niece - an Interview with Gina Roitman
In this episode I am talking to Gina Roitman who was born close to a displaced persons camp after the second world war. Her entire life, her mother kept telling her chilling stories about a woman she calls the Nazi Midwife. A few ye...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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28:58
After a murder of Jews happened nearby, I told Janek " the baby in the river..look! she is alive" - Part 2 (of 2) of an interview with Maxwell Smart
Join me for the conclusion of my interview with Maxwell Smart.In this episode I am talking to Maxwell Smart who was just nine when the war began. Born in the Ukrainian town of Buczacz - then part of Poland - had his life turned upside d...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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56:06
In the Ghetto we barely ate 500 calories a day - Part 1 (of 2) of an interview with Maxwell Smart
In this episode I am talking to Maxwell Smart who was just nine when the war began. Born in the Ukrainian town of Buczacz - then part of Poland - had his life turned upside down in 1939.When Maxwell went into hiding, among others, he and a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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47:55
Everyday the Nazis made me and other children watch from the window how other Jews died - an interview with Tana Donald Gelfer
In this episode I am talking to Tana who was was born in Berlin and a few years later, when she was about 4 years old, she spent a year in Theresienstadt concentration camp and was one of the 100 children to survive that camp out of 15000 child...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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26:03
I was on the death march for 6 days before my family and I escaped - an interview with Maritza Shelley
This is the one year anniversary to The Effect of Us podcast.In this episode I am talking to Martiza who tells me how she and her family jumped off a bridge to escape the Nazis.I also had the honor and privilege to interview Mar...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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31:17
We cut off our yellow stars and escaped - an interview with Muguette Szpajzer-Myers
In this episode I am talking to Muguette who tells me how she and her mother and brother escaped the war by hiding in different places, including cutting off their yellow stars and riding the metro in Paris with German soldiers.
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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40:14
Our neighbors confirmed to the German soldiers that we are Jewish - an interview with Rose Gelbart
In this episode I am talking to Rose who tells me how she escaped the war with her mother from Rzeszow ghetto, where everyone around including most of her family were put on trains to Belzec to be gassed in the extermination camp.R...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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1:08:53
Yom Ha'Shoa special episode in collaboration with the Mayor of Cote Saint-Luc, Mr. Mitchell Brownstein and survivor Mrs. Gyorgyi Nemes
In this special episode I collaborated with Mayor Brownstein and we interviewed togther Mrs. Gyrogyi Nemes who was 16 years old when the Nazis invaded Hungary.This episode is also available with a video at this link:
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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35:48
When the Nazis occupied my hometown, I remember watching the destruction of my synagogue primarily by the local population - an interview with Jack Adler
In this Episode I am talking to Jack Adler who was 10 years old when the Nazis occupied his home town in Poland and has vivid memories of what happened from their occupation until he was liberated by American soldiers while on the Dachau Death ...
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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22:15
They made us dig wholes in a ditch to throw in the dead - a special mini series interviews with Ben Lesser - Part 2 out of 4
In this special mini series that will have 4 episodes, I am talking to Ben Lesser who survived 2 death trains, several Ghettos, 2 death marches, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, until he was liberated in Dachaua 5 years later.Ben has ...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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44:28
One of the death marches I was on lasted 7 weeks and I was a zombie - a special mini series interviews with Ben Lesser - Part 3 out of 4
In this special mini series that will have 4 episodes, I am talking to Ben Lesser who survived 2 death trains, several Ghettos, 2 death marches, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, until he was liberated in Dachaua 5 years later.Ben has ...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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44:45
When I came to America after the war, Oh my God, what a good feeling it was. We were free people in the land of the free - the conclusion to a special mini series interviews with Ben Lesser - Part 4 out of 4
In this special mini series that will have 4 episodes, I am talking to Ben Lesser who survived 2 death trains, several Ghettos, 2 death marches, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, until he was liberated in Dachaua 5 years later.Ben has ...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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54:37
We falsified documents and helped other than my family, 50 more families leave the Ghetto - a special mini series interviews with Ben Lesser - Part 1 out of 4
In this special mini series that will have 4 episodes, I am talking to Ben Lesser who survived 2 death trains, several Ghettos, 2 death marches, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, until he was liberated in Dachaua 5 years later.Ben has ...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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54:50
When I was 6 years old I ran from the shootings and bullets in the synagogue - an interview with Rena Quint
In this episode, I am talking to Rena who tells me how when she was about 7 years old, her mother and her two older brothers were deported and murdered. She had to pretend to be a 10 years old boy in order to survive with her father in the camp...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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27:31
My family was among the 5% of the Jewish Danish population that was arrested - an interview with Steen Metz
Join me as I interview Steen who lived in Denmark during the war, where Jews made up only 0.2 percent of the country’s population and were well-integrated into Danish society at the time.Steen and his family were arrested and deported to Th...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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20:32