68 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2019
Soul
of blessed memory
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(JTA) — Yale University’
s
Fortunoff Video Archive for
Holocaust Testimonies launched
a podcast series featuring the
remembrances of survivors.
The series launched last
week with the testimony of
Martin Schiller, a Jewish man
from Poland who described
his experiences in the con-
centration and slave labor
camps of Plaszow, Skarzysko-
Kamienna, Buchenwald and
Theresienstadt. Plaszow serves
as the setting for the film
Schindler’
s List.
Titled “Those Who Were
There,” the podcast has nar-
ration by Eleanor Reissa, an
actress and Yiddish theater
director, and historical oversight
by Professor Samuel Kassow. It
features testimonies collected
from 1979 onward.
Hungarian author and
anti-communist dissident
Gyorgy (George) Konrad
died Sept. 13, 2019, aged
86, after a
long illness his
family told the
Hungarian state
news agency
MTI.
Considered
one of Hungary’
s
finest writers,
Konrad’
s novels
and essays were
widely translated
around the
world. He wrote
Departure and Return, The
City Builder and The Case
Worker, among other works.
Konrad was born in 1933
into a Jewish family in a
town close to the Romanian
border. In June 1944, he
narrowly survived
the Holocaust
by jumping on a
train to Budapest
a day before the
town’
s Jewish
population was
deported to
Auschwitz.
Konrad was
also a key figure
in the dissident
movement that
led to the end of
communism in Hungary in
1989.
Yale Launches Holocaust
Survivors Podcast
Hungarian Author
and Dissident Dies
Konrad, circa 1933
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