BERLIN'S HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL OPENS TO PUBLIC,
Morning Edition, May 13, 2005. A news feature about the unveiling
of the controversial monument.
EYEWITNESS REPORTS OF NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS,
Day to Day, May 4, 2005. Excerpts of broadcasts made 60 years ago by
journalists entering the camps upon their liberation.
HOLOCAUST AND MEMORY,
Connection, January 26, 2005. Holocaust survivor David Gewirtzman
and Rwandan genocide survivor Jacqueline Murekatete share their stories and
wonder about the power of memory.
REMEMBERING THE ROMA HOLOCAUST,
On Point, August 2, 2004. A radio diary by Peter Black on the
sixtieth anniversary of the Nazis' gassing of the last of some three thousand
gypsies remaining at Auschwitz.
EXODUS '47, Inside Out,
February 20, 2004. The story and impact of the 1947 attempt by a group
of American sailors to smuggle 4,500 Holocaust survivors past a blockade into
British-held Palestine.
REWRITING THE BIBLE, On
Point, November 20, 2002. Historian Daniel Goldhagen discusses his
recent book about the Catholic Church's role in the Holocaust.
HOLOCAUST ENCYCLOPEDIA,
Connection, April 18, 2001. A discussion of the Holocaust upon the
publication of a one-volume Yale reference work.
IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST,
Weekend Edition, March 3, 2001. The NPR newsmagazine host Scott
Simon interviews Edwin Black, author of IBM and the Holocaust: The
Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful
Corporation.
ERROL MORRIS AND 'MR. DEATH,' Connection, January 26, 2000. A conversation with documentary film-maker Errol Morris about Fred Leuchter, an execution chair designer who became a prominent Holocaust denier.
HOLOCAUST AND AMERICAN CULTURE,
Talk of the
Nation, June 23, 1999. The guests include University of Chicago historian
Peter Novick, author of Holocaust in American Life, and Vassar College religion
professor
SLAVE
LABOR, All Things
Considered, September 6, 1998. Historian Christopher Simpson, the
author of Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law and Genocide in the Twentieth
Century, is interviewed about the law suits initiated against Volkswagen and
other German companies for their use of slave labor during World War II.
SWISS BANK SETTLEMENT, Talk
of the Nation, August 17, 1998. Historian Deborah Lipstadt, lawyer
Stuart Eizenstat and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Elizabeth Trilling-Grotch are the
guests who discuss the agreement by Swiss banks to pay $1.25 billion in
restitution to Holocaust survivors and their heirs.
SWISS BANKS, Talk of the
Nation, December 18, 1997. Host Ray Suarez and guests talk about the
role of Swiss banks during the Holocaust and about the issue of possible payouts
by those banks today.
DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN,
Fresh Air, February 26, 1997. An interview with the author of the
controversial book Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the
Holocaust.