The Effect on Us - Eliane Goldstein's Podcast

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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.

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Most children around me died - an interview with Joseph (Joe) Sabrin

Jun 26 2023 28 mins

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 courage during the dark days of WWII based on his father's memoir.

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

Feb 27 2023 26 mins

In this episode I am talking to Marlene who tells me how her family escaped from the Nazis from Poland to Uzbeskistan and Siberia.

My family escaped thanks to the Aristides de Sousa Mendes visa - an interview with Lee Sterling

Feb 27 2023 40 mins

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 Sal

When I was 6 years old, a uniformed Nazi solider grabbed me from my mother - an interview with Eve Kugler

Nov 28 2022 35 mins

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 congratulated her mother for "having the perfect Aryan child".Tune in to her story.

We were starving and my mother used to sneak us food - an interview with Ruth Cohen

Nov 27 2022 52 mins

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 her and she was so scared that she not only stopped trying to bring in food but she feared dogs for the rest of her life.

I was hiding in a Nazi soldier's house - an interview with Frank Weinfeld

Sep 12 2022 19 mins

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 .

I was born in a bunker because the Nazis were shooting pregnant women - an interview with Julius Maslovat

Sep 04 2022 29 mins

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 film: Why Am I Here? A Child's Journey Through the Holocaust.

"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

Sep 02 2022 36 mins

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 living set of Holocaust survivor siblings anywhere in the world.The four siblings spent their youth in Sanok, Poland, near the Carpathian Moun

Out of 100 children on a freezing train, about 10 kids including me survived - an interview with Rachel (Rae) Gropper

Aug 30 2022 29 mins

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 open freight carts and shipped to the next prison. Because of the cold weather and exposure, only 10 children survived.Tune in to listen to her st

The Nazis took away 90% percent of the men who were the bread winners - an interview with Max Eisen

Jun 25 2022 38 mins

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-day march in the mountains to Ebensee until he was liberated on May 6, 1945.Max Eisen is the author of the book "By Chance Alone"