Silent Tracks

15/12/2023 The Nuremberg Trials, as recorded in history, took place from November 20, 1945, to October 1, 1946. The judges and public prosecutors in this historic trial came from the camp of the Allies (USA, UK, Soviet Union, France), and the defendants were 21 officials of the Nazi governments,...

The 13th episode of the radio documentary series "Silent Tracks" is dedicated to the Roma Holocaust. This episode is based on both written sources and sound recordings. First of all unfolds the story of Otto Schmidt, who was deported in the summer of 1938 to the Buchenwald concentration camp...

Oral testimonies and narratives, diaries, handwritten notes. The anthropogeography of the Holocaust, through the traces of space and people. ”Silent tracks: The people behind the Holocaust”EPISODE 12: ”TREBLINKA”Utilizing the fundamental principles of Euclidean geometry, the Nazis created multipl...

Episode 11: "THE LAST FOOTBALL MATCH IN THIERESIENSTADT AND A 35 MM FILM" It was the most peculiar ghetto set up by the Nazis during World War II. Theresienstadt was a "State for artists". Musicians, actors, directors, authors, who were supposed to continue to create unhindered by the suffering of...

Episode 10 - “MR. AND MRS. HERMANN” Can there be humanity in the horror of war? Can two people in the context of Nazi madness offer crumbs of love? Can an avowed Nazi, serving Adolf Hitler, offer a fresh apple cake to a Czech-Jewish pianist? Can two children, a Jewish child and a child whose fat...

Alice Herz-Sommer was the last survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto, a few dozen miles outside Prague. Theresienstadt, although advertised by the Nazis to be a place where artists were shielded from war, was in fact a death center, in which many displaced people died from starvation and infectious...

Alice Herz-Sommer was the last survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto, a few dozen miles outside Prague. Theresienstadt, although advertised by the Nazis to be a place where artists were shielded from war, was in fact a death center, in which many displaced people died from starvation and infectious...

Episode 7: Rudolf & IngeOn the seventh episode of the radio-documentary series ''Silent Tracks'' we follow a love story that begins in 1935 and is lost in the darkness of World War II. It is the story of Rudolf Kaufmann and Ingeborg Magnusson. He is Rudolf Kaufmann, is a German-Jewish man...

Episode 6: The children of Janusz Korczak The episode is dedicated to the greatest educator of the 20th century, the Polish-Jewish doctor, Janusz Korczak, who was killed in the Treblinka hellhole along with his children from the Warsaw ghetto. During the documentary, the shocking testimony...

Esther Cohen, in a heartbreaking narrative, describes the death march from her ancestral home town of Ioannina to Poland and the Auschwitz extermination camp. An important recording that adds to the already invaluable ERT Archive, which sheds light on unknown aspects of a once populous and thriving...

Episode 4: The story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (part 2) The episode is dedicated to Władysław (Władek) Szpilman, the master pianist who managed to survive initially inside the Warsaw Ghetto and then in the narrow periphery outside it throughout the war. ERT and Voice of Greece listeners will ha...

The episode is dedicated to Władysław (Władek) Szpilman, the master pianist who managed to survive initially inside the Warsaw Ghetto and then in the narrow periphery outside it throughout the war. ERT and Voice of Greece listeners will have the opportunity to hear Szpilman's shocking oral testimony re...

Episode 2: The Dark Room of Mauthausen Yona was the eldest of four children born to a working-class Jewish family. The family lived in the Jewish quarter of Pabianice. Yona's father sold merchandise to Polish shops. When the Poles could not pay him for his goods, they would give him food for...

Episode 1: The Invasion of Polland Listen to the first episode of the 14-part radio documentary series ”Silent tracks: The people behind the Holocaust”, based Thomas Sideris’ book by the same title. [with Greek Audio]The first radio documentary in the series, entitled "The Invasion of Poland, Autum...