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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